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A teen died after being blackmailed with A.I.-generated nudes. His family is fighting for change
Elijah Heacock's parents had never heard of sextortion before their son died by suicide. Now, they're fighting to protect other families.
Elijah was the victim of a sextortion scam, where bad actors target young people online and threaten to release explicit images of them. "You don't actually need any technical skills at this point to create this kind of illegal and harmful material," Dr. Rebecca Portnoff, the head of data science at Thorn, a non-profit focused on preventing child exploitation online, said. As a proud bilingual journalist, Valdes put her skills forward to produce and report an in-depth piece on Hurricane Maria's impact to Puerto Rico.
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