Fetisov Journalism Awards 2024

Second Prize Winner

Category: Contribution to Civil Rights

Katie McQue (USA)

Series on use of social media platforms to exploit and traffic children

The Guardian

February 1st, 2024

The original publication is available via the following link:

‘If Instagram didn’t exist, it wouldn’t have happened’: a mother’s search for her trafficked daughter

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/feb/02/mother-hunt-houston-daughter-instagram-meta-sex-trafficking-grooming

‘Pimps’ use Instagram to glorify sexual violence and abuse, investigation finds

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/05/pimps-use-instagram-to-glorify-sexual-violence-and-abuse-investigation-finds

How Facebook Messenger and Meta Pay are used to buy child sexual abuse material

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/14/facebook-messenger-meta-pay-child-sexual-abuse-exploitation

Revealed: US police prevented from viewing many online child sexual abuse reports, lawyers say

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/17/child-sexual-abuse-ai-moderator-police-meta-alphabet

Battle lines drawn as US states take on big tech with online child safety bills

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/15/online-child-safety-bills-big-tech

‘It was forced’: grieving parents unfazed by sorry tech CEOs at US Senate hearing

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/feb/01/parents-tech-ceos-us-senate-hearing