Facebook Hopes To Be A ‘Thorn’ In The Side Of Child Pornography, Abuse

Facebook is among the major Internet companies involved in talks with Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children, a Los Angeles-based organization started by Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore to combat child sex trafficking, child pornography, and sexual exploitation of children.

Facebook is among the major Internet companies involved in talks with Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children, a Los Angeles-based organization started by Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore to combat child sex trafficking, child pornography, and sexual exploitation of children.

U.K. newspaper The Times reported that Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Twitter, and at least three other companies are in discussions with Thorn with the aim of creating a database of the “worst of the worst” images, to be maintained by Thorn.

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