Prevention

Dr. Rebecca Portnoff, Head of Data Science at Thorn, shares more about her career and what working to defend children with tech is like.

Meet Jaylin: NoFiltr Youth Innovation Council alumni and first-year college student. In this interview, he speaks on the importance of digital wellbeing for youth, exploring your identity safely, and how to improve online spaces for more authentic connection.

We discuss how sextortion happens and what to do if it happens to you.

Sextortion survivors want you to know that it can happen to anyone. Read the three pieces of advice they’d give to anyone being blackmailed for nudes.

Sextortion is when someone's sexual imagery is used to extort them. Put simply, it's when someone blackmails or threatens to expose another person's sexual imagery to make that person do something they don’t want to do, like send more compromising…

The NoFiltr Resource Hub is a comprehensive digital hub created by youth for youth that brings together online safety and mental health resources.

When a young boy begins chatting with a “friend” during a video game, she lures him in and abuses his trust, engaging in sextortion for his nudes.

Finding something in common. Telling personal stories. Sharing something just a little bit vulnerable and creating a bond. We all do this to build trust. But what if someone takes that trust to a place where we never want it…

It’s possible you’ve taken a bad or embarrassing selfie, a photo you thought you’d share, but decided against, or even a photo that could put you in danger. How can you be sure that those photos are really, truly deleted?

Thorn is grateful when we get the opportunity to partner with popular platforms to connect with young users where they are, helping them to interact in positive ways to reduce risk.