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Recommendations to Combat Child Exploitation in Social Media

Oliver Huang, Arik Karim, Brian Zhou, Natalie Zhang, Avery Kimberlin, Grace Lee, Varun Mukund
SSRN, 2023
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@article{huang2023childexploitation,
  title   = {Recommendations to Combat Child Exploitation in Social Media},
  author  = {Huang, Oliver and Karim, Arik and Zhou, Brian and Zhang, Natalie and Kimberlin, Avery and Lee, Grace and Mukund, Varun},
  journal = {SSRN},
  year    = {2023},
  month   = oct,
  day     = {4},
  url     = {https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4652240}
}

Abstract

Social media has exploded in usage amongst children. 50% of parents state that their child has access to some type of social media, with 32% of parents reporting that their children aged 7 to 9 have access to social media. Three quarters of parents have shared the content of their children online. With staggering numbers of children online, child content in social media is increasingly profitable. In 2020, the highest paid YouTube content creator was 9 year old Ryan Kaji, best known for his toy reviews. Content creators like Niki Phillips, DaddyOFive, and Myka Stauffer have all gained significant online followings through their content based on their children. Unfortunately, this creates numerous opportunities for exploitation of the content creator. Family content channels have been accused of physical and emotional abuse of their children in their content. Content creators have also violated the privacy and dignity of neurodivergent or adopted children.

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