{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassleys-big-tech-investigation-yields-child-safety-results", "Grassley\u2019s Big Tech Investigation Yields Child Safety Results", "2026-08-27", "2026", "2026-08", "Republican", "Senate", "IA", "Chuck Grassley", "G000386", "www.grassley.senate.gov", "grassley", "https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases", "scraper", "BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA \u2013 U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley\u2019s (R-Iowa) investigation into eight major tech companies has prompted \u201csignificantly improved\u201d and \u201cmore actionable\u201d reports of online child exploitation, according to a letter from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). These improvements have allowed law enforcement to better respond to instances of child abuse.\n\n\u201cFollowing your direct outreach to these platforms regarding these issues, NCMEC is pleased to share that each of the companies have constructively engaged with NCMEC to significantly improve their reporting to the CyberTipline\u2026 more actionable CyberTipline reports are being submitted, enabling law enforcement to better investigate offenders and safeguard children from sexual exploitation,\u201d NCMEC wrote in a letter to Grassley.\n\nIn April 2026, Grassley opened a congressional inquiry into Meta, TikTok, Amazon, Snapchat, Discord, X.AI, Grindr and Roblox regarding the companies\u2019 alleged failure to sufficiently report online child sexual exploitation. In June 2026, Grassley released responses from each of the companies, which explained their efforts to improve reporting processes. In August 2026, NCMEC informed Grassley that each platform had taken \u201csubstantive measures\u201d to address its reporting deficiencies as a direct result of Grassley\u2019s oversight.\n\n\u201cProtecting children online is a top legislative and oversight priority for me as Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman. I\u2019m glad to see my investigation into child safety reporting yield real results, and I appreciate these companies for responding to my oversight. I also thank them for working with NCMEC to ensure every suspected incident of online child exploitation is detected, reported and addressed,\u201d Grassley said. \u201cI\u2019ll always work to hold Big Tech accountable to the American people, and I\u2019ll continue fighting for commonsense solutions to safeguard our nation\u2019s children.\u201d\n\nRead NCMEC\u2019s latest update HERE.\n\nGrassley\u2019s original inquiry can be found HERE, and the tech companies\u2019 responses can be found HERE. A summary of NCMEC\u2019s update can be found below:\n\nMeta\n\nAccording to NCMEC, Meta submitted nearly 11 million reports involving suspected online child exploitation to NCMEC\u2019s CyberTipline in 2025.\n\nFollowing Grassley\u2019s oversight, Meta has:\n\nImproved its reporting process to ensure reported conduct meets the legal threshold for CyberTipline reporting.\n\nIncreased its use of report annotations to provide additional context for law enforcement responding to incidents of child exploitation.\n\nResolved a technical issue that resulted in around 3,900 duplicate reports in 2025.\n\nUpdated its training and escalation protocols for reports involving suicidal ideation.\n\nTikTok\n\nTikTok submitted over 2.1 million reports involving suspected online child exploitation to NCMEC\u2019s CyberTipline from January 2025 to June 2025.\n\nFollowing Grassley\u2019s oversight, TikTok has:\n\nSignificantly reduced reports of non-pertinent content.\n\nImplemented biweekly discussions with NCMEC to improve reporting quality and accuracy.\n\nAmazon\n\nAmazon AI Services submitted approximately 1.1 million reports involving suspected online child exploitation to NCMEC\u2019s CyberTipline in 2025. After human review, Amazon determined 99.6% of the reports were false positives, and 4,376 were confirmed child sexual abuse material (CSAM).\n\nFollowing Grassley\u2019s oversight, Amazon has:\n\nImplemented human review of public-web detections to confirm instances of child sexual exploitation before submitting reports.\n\nImproved its CyberTipline reporting process to include source URLs, file names, reported files and additional contextual information.\n\nConducted a comprehensive review of more than one million submitted reports and retracted false positives.\n\nSnapchat\n\nSnapchat submitted approximately 752,000 reports involving suspected online child exploitation to NCMEC\u2019s CyberTipline in 2025.\n\nFollowing Grassley\u2019s oversight, Snapchat has:\n\nImplemented new report annotations to indicate minor-to-minor interactions, sextortion and sadistic online exploitation.\n\nExpanded use of reported incident types, including \u201cunsolicited obscene material sent to a child.\u201d\n\nRefined reporting to provide evidence of an offender\u2019s knowledge of a child\u2019s age.\n\nImproved its reporting process to include additional chat history to provide greater context for law enforcement.\n\nDiscord\n\nAccording to NCMEC, Discord submitted nearly 490,000 reports involving suspected online child exploitation to NCMEC\u2019s CyberTipline in 2025.\n\nFollowing Grassley\u2019s oversight, Discord has:\n\nReduced reporting of non-pertinent content.\n\nImproved reporting procedures to ensure relevant user account and location information is included in CyberTipline reports or made available to law enforcement.\n\nImproved its reporting process to include port numbers.\n\nX.AI\n\nX.AI submitted over 135,000 reports involving suspected online child exploitation to NCMEC\u2019s CyberTipline in 2025.\n\nFollowing Grassley\u2019s oversight, X.AI has:\n\nResubmitted previous CyberTipline reports with more complete user and location information.\n\nImproved its reporting process to include key subscriber information, including name, date of birth, email address, screen name, user identifier, registration or login IP address and profile URL.\n\nImproved its reporting process to ensure location information is included in the majority of reports.\n\nImproved its reporting process to include image-generation prompt information, when applicable, to provide additional investigative context.\n\nGrindr\n\nAccording to NCMEC, Grindr submitted over 111,000 reports involving suspected online child exploitation to NCMEC\u2019s CyberTipline in 2025.\n\nFollowing Grassley\u2019s oversight, Grindr has:\n\nSignificantly improved its reporting process to more frequently include user and location information as well as key subscriber information, including display name, user identifier, login IP address, port number, device ID, estimated location and profile bio when applicable.\n\nResubmitted approximately 7,000 reports with updated IP and location information.\n\nCommitted to resubmitting approximately 54,000 reports with additional location information.\n\nEstablished regular engagement with NCMEC and committed to participate in the 2026 CyberTipline Roundtable.\n\nRoblox\n\nAccording to NCMEC, Roblox submitted over 65,000 reports involving suspected online child exploitation to NCMEC\u2019s CyberTipline in 2025.\n\nFollowing Grassley\u2019s oversight, Roblox has:\n\nSignificantly improved its reporting process to better identify the child victim in incidents involving multiple children.\n\nConducted additional training for reporting personnel.\n\nIncreased its use of report annotations to provide additional context for law enforcement.\n\nWorked with NCMEC to improve identification and reporting of sadistic online exploitation.", 1, "2026-08-28T17:11:49Z", "2026-08-28T17:13:14Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassleys-big-tech-investigation-yields-child-safety-results"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7582590226083994, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}