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TikTok US joins Lantern cross-platform child safety initiative

TikTok's US unit joins peers including Meta and X in sharing harmful behavior signals and commits $2M to NCMEC modernization.

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What to know

  • TikTok's U.S. joint venture joins Lantern, a cross-platform child safety program where members including Meta, X, Google, and Snap share signals of harmful behavior to track bad actors across platforms.
  • Lantern members shared over 2 million signals of potentially violating behavior through 2025, demonstrating the program's scale and coordination.
  • TikTok commits $2 million to NCMEC's $10 million, three-year CyberTipline modernization project alongside AWS, Microsoft, and Palantir to deploy advanced detection and analysis tools.

“This investment will help NCMEC deploy advanced search, automation, and analysis tools to detect harm sooner, cut manual processing times in half, and accelerate actionable reports to law enforcement when a child's safety is on the line.”

TikTok, TikTok USDS Joint Venture · TechCrunch ↗

TikTok USDS Joint Venture Platform joining child safety initiativeMarc Leone Lantern directorTech Coalition Lantern program founder

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    TikTok US joins Lantern and pledges $2M to NCMEC

    TikTok USDS JV becomes a member of Lantern alongside Google, X, Snap, Twitch, Anthropic, Meta, Discord, Microsoft, Apple, Roblox, Reddit, and others. The company commits $2 million to NCMEC's CyberTipline modernization project, which aims to deploy advanced detection tools and reduce manual processing times by half.

    “Cross-platform collaboration is essential to identifying and disrupting child sexual exploitation and abuse, and TikTok USDS JV's participation will help strengthen coordinated enforcement across the wider tech ecosystem.”
    — Marc Leone

    1. 1 outlet first by TechCrunch, 1d ago · read ↗

    • TikTok’s US joint venture joins Lantern child safety programme and pledges $2M to NCMEC https:// thenextweb.com/news/tiktok-us- joins-lantern-child-safety-ncmec?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into TNW - All Stories @ tnw-all-stories-thenextweb

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  2. background

    TikTok establishes U.S.-based joint venture — TikTok spins out its U.S. operations into a separate entity known as TikTok USDS Joint Venture, eight months before joining Lantern.

  3. background

    Tech Coalition launches Lantern child safety program — Lantern is established as a cross-platform initiative to help social media companies securely share signals of harmful behavior and content to identify bad actors moving across platforms.