It started on Snapchat. Investigators with the Broward Sheriff's Office say a 14-year-old Broward girl struck up a friendship with a 18-year-old man in December 2018.

Snapchat, operated by parent company Snap Inc., is often in the middle of high-profile cases such as Woodson's, in which he was sentenced to 50 years in prison. (Woodson is appealing the case.) ...

OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — Okaloosa County investigators are warning the public of sextortion after a teenager fell victim to a scheme on Snapchat.

Snapchat failed to adequately warn its users about the extent of rampant “sextortion schemes” targeting underage users – even as employees debated internally about how to address the crisis ...

In some cases, sextortion has resulted in suicides. Meta in April also announced new features aimed at combating sextortion, including informing users when they've interacted with someone who ...

CARMICHAEL (CBS13) — A case of "sextortion" on Snapchat. A local man is charged with preying on several underage girls through social media and allegedly sexually assaulting one of them.

Snapchat is working to make it harder for teenagers to be contacted on the app by people they don’t know, its latest effort to stop the sexual and financial exploitation scam known as sextortion.

New York (CNN) — Snapchat is working to make it harder for teenagers to be contacted on the app by people they don’t know, its latest effort to stop the sexual and financial exploitation scam known as ...