TikTok’s US arm joins Lantern, a cross-platform child safety initiative
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TikTok’s U.S. arm has joined the Lantern cross-platform child-safety network, which shares abuse signals such as accounts and content. The company has pledged $2 million to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to fund tools that cut manual processing time in half and deliver faster reports to police. Lantern members, including Meta and X, have already shared over 2 million signals of potentially violating behavior from 2023 through 2025.
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How it was reported
- TechCrunch·TikTok’s US arm joins Lantern, a cross-platform child safety initiative
- The Next Web·TikTok’s US joint venture joins Lantern child safety programme and pledges $2M to NCMEC
TikTok’s US joint venture has joined Lantern, a cross-platform child-safety network that shares abuse signals such as accounts and content, and has pledged $2 million to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The donation will fund search, automation, and analysis tools that aim to cut manual processing time in half and deliver faster, usable reports to police over a three-year, $10 million upgrade backed by AWS, Microsoft, and Palantir.
- TechMeme·TikTok US joins child safety initiative Lantern, which says members like Meta and X shared 2M+ signals of potentially violating behavior from 2023 through 2025 (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
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