NCOSE to Reveal 2024 Dirty Dozen List on April 10
By Movieguide® Contributor
In a press conference on April 10, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) will reveal its 2024 Dirty Dozen List, which lists twelve companies that enable sexual exploitation.
“Sexual exploitation and abuse thrives across tech platforms and entities we use daily; they continue to flourish due to lack of or poor enforcement of policies; and they are enabled by a lack of sufficient laws to hold companies accountable,” said Lina Nealon, NCOSE’s Vice President & Director of Corporate Advocacy. “The Dirty Dozen List exposes exploitation happening to us and to our children and calls for those enabling and profiting from sexual abuse and exploitation to change.”
“Over the past decade, the Dirty Dozen List Campaign has instigated major policy changes at Google, TikTok, Comcast, Delta Airlines, Amazon, the Department of Defense, and many other influential institutions,” an NCOSE press release said. “The list reveals practices and products that endanger and harm people and galvanizes the public to press on the named entities to act ethically and promote human dignity.”
By naming companies and the ways they engage in sexual exploitation, NCOSE aims to capture their attention and encourage preventive policy changes.
Movieguide® reported the companies that were on 2023’s Dirty Dozen list:
Apple App Store
Discord
eBay
Kik
Microsoft’s GitHub
OnlyFans
Roblox
Snapchat
Spotify
After Snapchat landed on the list, it improved its child safety features by offering safeguards for teens encountering people they haven’t met in person, enabling sexual content restrictions and providing resources on sexual exploitation.
Instagram and OnlyFans will likely remain on the list in 2024, as they remain a huge concern for NCOSE.
About OnlyFans, NCOSE says, “It’s one of the most treacherous places for sex trafficking.”
Several organizations, in addition to NCOSE, have expressed their concerns to Instagram regarding its loose policies that allow room for grooming and child sexual abuse materials.
Hopefully, 2024’s Dirty Dozen companies will acknowledge their harmful policies and make appropriate changes, as Snapchat did last year.
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