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Snap sued by New Mexico over 'sextortion' of kids by predators [cnbc.com]:

CNBC has requested comment from Snap about Torrez's lawsuit, which was filed in the First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe County.

The suit alleges that Snap "repeatedly made statements to the public regarding the safety and design of its platforms that it knew were untrue," or that were contradicted by the company's own internal findings.

"Snap was specifically aware, but failed to warn children and parents, of 'rampant' and 'massive' sextortion on its platform — a problem so grave that it drives children facing merciless and relentless blackmail demands or disclosure of intimate images to their families and friends to suicide," the suit says.

New Mexico's Department of Justice, which Torrez leads, in recent months conducted an investigation that found that there was a "vast network of dark web sites dedicated to sharing stolen, non-consensual sexual images from Snap" and that there were more than 10,000 records related to SNAP and child sexual abuse material "in the last year alone," the department said.

The suit alleges violations of New Mexico's unfair trade practices law.

— Additional reporting by Josephine Rozzelle [cnbc.com]

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