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Katie McQue

Katie McQue is a journalist covering human rights, energy and healthcare

July 2024

  • The Apple Inc logo, a white apple, is featured on a building

    UK watchdog accuses Apple of failing to report sexual images of children

  • illustration of back of person's head morphed in front of yellow, blue, green, pink, red and blue background

    AI is overpowering efforts to catch child predators, experts warn

June 2024

  • Composite illustration of hair and back in front of multi-colored background

    Child predators are using AI to create sexual images of their favorite ‘stars’: ‘My body will never be mine again’

  • Relemay Fabula Gan (left) and Saddam Ali (right).

    Migrant workers ‘fear for their safety’ after deaths on Diego Garcia

May 2024

  • Middle-aged white woman with long dark hair, dark eyebrows, bright blue eyes and red lipstick, dressed casually in front of an American flag.

    New York governor to launch bill banning smartphones in schools

    Exclusive: Kathy Hochul pushes online child safety, telling social media companies: ‘You’re not going to profit off the mental health of children’
  • aerial view of trees and sign with blue logo

    Meta revokes job offer to sextortion expert after he publicly criticizes Instagram

    Exclusive: Paul Raffile held webinar where he said app failed to protect children, and his offer was rescinded hours later
    • Inquiry into child sexual abuse on Meta platforms leads to arrest of three men

    • US crypto entrepreneur arrested in Dubai alleges torture by police

    • Chagos Islanders fear loss of identity as birth certificates altered to remove disputed homeland

April 2024

  • A former domestic worker in Beirut. About 250,000 African and Asian migrant women work in Lebanon. An average of two domestic workers a week die there.

    The future of work
    ‘Every day I cry’: 50 women talk about life as a domestic worker under the Gulf’s kafala system

    Denounced as giving a ‘veneer of legality to slaveholding’, the kafala labour code persists, allowing employers to abuse women, who vanish from society. This is the testimony of some of those workers, gathered over two years in a Guardian investigation
  • Stock photo of black keyboard overlaid with green and red images and light.s

    Child sexual abuse content growing online with AI-made images, report says

    More children and families extorted with AI-made photos and videos, says National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
  • a child uses a laptop

    Battle lines drawn as US states take on big tech with online child safety bills

    Nine states are hashing out bills to protect minors online. Tech companies are fighting the laws with everything they’ve got

March 2024

  • the logo for "Meta" on a sign outside a building

    Rights and freedom
    How Facebook Messenger and Meta Pay are used to buy child sexual abuse material

  • Aryion Jackon poses with a handful of money.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘Pimps’ use Instagram to glorify sexual violence and abuse, investigation finds

February 2024

  • A middle-aged white woman sitting on a sofa and holding a portrait of a teenage girl

    Rights and freedom
    ‘If Instagram didn’t exist, it wouldn’t have happened’: a mother’s search for her trafficked daughter

  • Zuckerberg at the Senate hearing with people holding up photos of young people.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘It was forced’: grieving parents unfazed by sorry tech CEOs at US Senate hearing

January 2024

  • Mark Zuckerberg speaks to family members, apologizing as he testifies during social media hearing in Washington DC.

    Mark Zuckerberg and Snap CEO Evan Spiegel apologize to families of online harm victims at Senate hearing – as it happened

  • New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez speaks during a news conference, May 18, 2023, at the The Clyde Hotel in Albuquerque,

    Rights and freedom
    Meta is the world’s ‘single largest marketplace for paedophiles’, says New Mexico attorney general

  • FILES-US-INTERNET-STOCKS-META-15YEARS-FACEBOOK<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 29, 2020 shows the logo of the social network Instagram on a smartphone, in Toulouse, southwestern France. - Key chapters in the history of Facebook, the world's biggest social media application, which marks the tenth anniversary Wednesday of its stock market debut. Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg rang the opening bell remotely to cheers 10 years ago as the beloved social network made its stock market debut, culminating an all-night hackathon that included street hockey, costumes and music. The Silicon Valley tech colossus rebranded as Meta has since seen its image tainted by accusations it has become a tech tyrant, putting profit over user privacy and even the good of society. (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP) (Photo by LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP via Getty Images)

    Meta documents show 100,000 children sexually harassed daily on its platforms

  • A hand types on a keyboad

    Revealed: US police prevented from viewing many online child sexual abuse reports, lawyers say

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