{"id":23912,"date":"2026-07-13T13:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/young-men-report-more-sextortion-than-any-other-age-group-australias-online-safety-watchdog-says\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:37:15","slug":"young-men-report-more-sextortion-than-any-other-age-group-australias-online-safety-watchdog-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/young-men-report-more-sextortion-than-any-other-age-group-australias-online-safety-watchdog-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Young men report more \u2018sextortion\u2019 than any other age group, Australia\u2019s online safety watchdog says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In six months last year, more than 2,000 such complaints were made to eSafety<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A new report by Australia\u2019s online safety regulator has found \u201csignificant gaps\u201d in how major tech platforms tackle online sexual extortion and child sexual exploitation, as \u201creports of this abuse continue to rise\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The findings come from eSafety\u2019s latest transparency report, examining how tech companies \u2013 including Apple, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Snap, Discord and WhatsApp \u2013 are addressing child sexual exploitation and abuse.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jul\/13\/young-men-report-more-sextortion-than-any-other-age-group-australias-online-safety-watchdog-says-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/82fae54ed7ab50ce144a61f00eb1155616cac21a\/481_0_4810_3848\/master\/4810.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ab8408d84e5a20c4825fecf09e1aa32f\" title=\"Young men report more \u2018sextortion\u2019 than any other age group, Australia\u2019s online safety watchdog says\" \/>In six months last year, more than 2,000 such complaints were made to eSafety<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<br \/>\nA new report by Australia\u2019s online safety regulator has found \u201csignificant gaps\u201d in how major tech platforms tackle online sexual extortion and child sexual exploitation, as \u201creports of this abuse continue to rise\u201d.<br \/>\nThe findings come from eSafety\u2019s latest transparency report, examining how tech companies \u2013 including Apple, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Snap, Discord and WhatsApp \u2013 are addressing child sexual exploitation and abuse. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In six months last year, more than 2,000 such complaints were made to eSafety Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A new report by Australia\u2019s online safety regulator has found \u201csignificant gaps\u201d in how major tech platforms tackle online sexual extortion and child sexual exploitation, as \u201creports of this abuse &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/young-men-report-more-sextortion-than-any-other-age-group-australias-online-safety-watchdog-says\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Young men report more \u2018sextortion\u2019 than any other age group, Australia\u2019s online safety watchdog says<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23912"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}