Grassley Holds Big Tech’s Feet to the Fire, Prompts Improved Reporting on Child Safety Concerns

Grassley Holds Big Tech's Feet to the Fire, Prompts Improved Reporting on Child Safety Concerns

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is forcing eight major technology companies to explain to the American public how they intend to improve reporting of online child sexual exploitation.

Grassley today released responses from Meta, TikTok, Amazon, Snapchat, xAI, Roblox, Grindr and Discord following his oversight of the companies' alleged failure to sufficiently report online child sexual exploitation to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).

"Keeping kids safe online and protecting parents' peace of mind are top priorities for me as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In order for families to succeed in the digital era, Big Tech must be held accountable. I appreciate these companies responding to my oversight and I'll be closely watching to ensure the proper safeguards and reporting requirements are in place to prevent abuse, safeguard children and prosecute suspected predators," Grassley said.

Read the responses: Meta, TikTok US, TikTok, Amazon, Snapchat, xAI, Roblox and Roblox supplemental, Grindr and Discord. A summary of the responses follows.

Meta

Meta submitted over 2.6 million reports involving suspected child sexual exploitation to NCMEC's CyberTipline during the last quarter of 2025. Further, Meta identified over 265 million Facebook accounts and over 135 million Instagram accounts that showed potentially suspicious behavior. Meta also removed nearly 135,000 Instagram accounts for leaving sexualized comments or requesting sexual images from minors, as well as an additional 500,000 linked Facebook and Instagram accounts.

To address NCMEC's concerns, Meta is making the following updates:

• Including last-known location coordinates on Instagram reports to assist with victim safety checks and jurisdictional routing.
• Including network source port numbers alongside IP addresses to improve law enforcement's ability to locate reported users.
• Adding additional technical metadata to reports, including standardized timestamps, audio content and expanded chat context in WhatsApp reports, among others.

TikTok

TikTok submitted over 2.1 million reports involving suspected online child exploitation to NCMEC's CyberTipline from January 2025 to June 2025.

To address NCMEC's concerns, TikTok noted plans to remove "non pertinent" information and include more granular context in its reports, while integrating improved prioritization standards to increase its number of actionable reports. TikTok stated there will be "multiple improvements rolling out over the next 60 days."

Amazon

Amazon detected and reported over one million instances of suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to NCMEC's CyberTipline in 2025. After human review, Amazon determined 99.6% of the reports were false positives, and 4,376 were confirmed CSAM.

To address NCMEC's concerns, Amazon noted enhancements to its detection pipeline, including additional filtering mechanisms to reduce the false positive rate of its reports.

Snapchat

Snapchat submitted approximately 752,000 reports involving suspected online child exploitation to NCMEC's CyberTipline in 2025 and has submitted over 200,000 reports thus far in 2026.

To address NCMEC's concerns, Snapchat is making the following updates:

• Including evidence regarding the reported user's knowledge of the victim's age.
• Including additional annotations when the report pertains to sextortion, sadistic online exploitation or minor-to-minor interactions.
• Expanding the data in reports to include source port information in the majority of cases and information about the reported user's device, geolocation data and more.

xAI

xAI submitted over 135,000 reports involving suspected online child exploitation to NCMEC's CyberTipline in 2025 and has submitted over 127,000 reports thus far in 2026.

To address NCMEC's concerns, xAI is making the following updates:

• Rebuilding its tooling pipeline to include names, email addresses and phone numbers in reports.
• Including IP addresses and session data in reports to enable geolocation.

Roblox

Per NCMEC, Roblox submitted over 65,000 reports involving suspected online child exploitation to NCMEC's CyberTipline in 2025.

To address NCMEC's concerns, Roblox is making the following updates:

• Implementing NCMEC annotations in reports - specifically tagging instances of sadistic online exploitation - to improve triaging efforts.
• Including email addresses, verified phone numbers and IP port numbers in reports.
• Updating its reporting threshold to reduce non-actionable reports.

Roblox identified additional areas for enhancement, including clearer victim identification and evidence formatting.

Grindr

Per NCMEC, Grindr submitted over 111,000 reports involving suspected online child exploitation to NCMEC's CyberTipline in 2025.

To address NCMEC's concerns, Grindr is making the following updates:

• Revising its process of training and cross-training additional staff to ensure high priority cases are properly prioritized.
• Integrating its reporting process with the NCMEC CyberTipline API to allow for a more automated reporting process.
• Enhancing its preservation of location information for users who have been flagged.

Grindr is working to implement additional improvements by the summer of 2026, including updating escalation flags to ensure they are used appropriately, adding port numbers to IP address data, and transmitting photos and media to NCMEC in their original file format.

Discord

Per NCMEC, Discord submitted nearly 490,000 reports involving suspected online child exploitation to NCMEC's CyberTipline in 2025.

To address NCMEC's concerns, Discord is making the following updates:

• Updating its reporting process to ensure its reviewers are only identifying and reporting attachments that constitute potential CSAM.
• Consolidating reports into 12-hour batches to reduce duplicate reports.
• Strengthening and expanding its machine learning-powered systems to enhance reporting capabilities and better identify alternate accounts of users banned for child exploitation.

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