New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez said Tuesday, Oct. 1, that internal documents from Snapchat show the company knew sextortion was rampant on the social media platform but did nothing to stop it. The documents, which are part of an ongoing lawsuit , were unredacted Tuesday.
In the lawsuit, Torrez claimed Snapchat’s parent company, Snap, knew about a “sextortion handbook” circulating the dark web, which gave instructions on how use the Snap Maps feature to target a school.
Sextortion is when a person leads a victim to send naked or compromising photos of themselves – then threatens the victim to make the images public unless the victim pays money or performs sexual favors…