The 2026 Dirty Dozen List has been revealed!
The Dirty Dozen List is an annual campaign that gives YOU the power to effect change among some of the world’s most influential corporations, institutions, and entities. This year, the Dirty Dozen List returns to its iconic approach of calling out 12 mainstream contributors to sexual exploitation—and inviting you to take action.
With a few clicks of a button, you can contact corporate executives and U.S. legislators, urging them to take the necessary steps to prevent sexual abuse and exploitation.
Are you ready to jump in and make change happen? Read about our 12 Dirty Dozen List targets, and take action for each of them below.
Amazon
Despite advocates around the world calling out Amazon over the years, this company continues to host—and algorithmically surface—child-like sex dolls that violate its own policies, endanger children, and undermine laws across the United States and abroad. In a short searching session, a NCOSE researcher found over 20 sex dolls on Amazon with unmistakably child-like faces, clothing, body proportions, and marketing terms such as “young,” “petite,” “little,” or even “sex doll 14.” Some were posed with stuffed animals.
Android
Google’s Android OS fails to prioritize prevention, leaving millions of teens exposed to sextortion, predatory messaging, and early encounters with pornography. By relying almost entirely on optional parental tools like Family Link, Android fails to provide built-in, proactive safeguards, forcing children to navigate high-risk digital environments on their own. Apple’s default settings show it’s possible to do better. It’s time for Android to step up.
Apple
The Apple App Store lulls parents with “kid-safe” labels while exposing children to hidden online dangers. Deepfake “nudify” tools, stranger connection apps for 13-year-olds, and sex games for preschoolers have all waltzed past Apple’s supposed safeguards—showing just how easily its review system can be gamed. With 87% of U.S. teens on iPhones, Apple is the de facto gatekeeper of childhood online. And until it reins in dangerous apps, fixes deceptive age ratings, and closes loopholes in its parental controls, Apple is failing the very kids it claims to protect.
Google Chromebooks
Schools started giving out Chromebooks for education, but too often they result in exploitation. From exposing kids to pornography or to predators on dangerous platforms, to failing parents with clunky, ineffective safety tools, Google’s educational devices are a liability for kids, parents, and schools. Profit-driven design has trumped protection for too long. Google must stop shirking responsibility and make child safety the default.
Discord
Discord is an online destination for exploitation, and even organized criminal sextortion networks have noticed. Discord’s design choices—private channels, limited default safeguards, and reactive enforcement—undermine its own “safety rules,” allowing serious harms like sextortion, grooming, CSAM distribution, and image-based sexual abuse to flourish. It’s time for them to take prevention seriously.
Grok
xAI’s Grok builds chatbots to normalize rape, sexual violence, and prostitution/sex trafficking, and image generators to create sexual imagery. This fuels a culture of entitlement and abuse. Worse yet, Grok’s “age-gate” is little more than a public relations ploy, making all of the above effectively accessible to minors. These aren’t accidents—they appear to be intentional design choices to maximize engagement and profit, regardless of the human cost. It’s time for Grok to change its tune, and innovate for humanity’s good, not exploitation.
Snapchat
Snapchat is a tool of choice for sextortionists, sex traffickers, and child abusers — and the company knows it. Internal documents and whistleblower accounts reveal that reports of abuse have often gone ignored, critical safety fixes were dismissed to protect engagement metrics, and features like My AI have promoted statutory rape. The technology exists to stop this, yet Snap chooses to look the other way.
Steam
Steam does nothing to protect children who don’t have the privilege of highly-involved, tech savvy caregivers enrolling them in family accounts. Any child can make a Steam account, without parental permission or age verification, and immediately have full access to all sexually explicit and sexually violent games.
Telegram
Telegram prioritizes privacy for sexual exploiters. Telegram knows that it is a messaging app used by sexual abusers for child sexual abuse material, sex trafficking, sextortion, deepfake image-based sexual abuse, and more. Yet it continues to operate encryption without real safeguards—all in the name of ‘privacy’—disregarding victims’ privacy and human rights. Telegram has chosen a side.
TikTok
TikTok continues to fail at protecting children, letting predators use messaging, comments, and livestreams to groom and exploit minors. Internal documents show the company knew the risks but did too little to stop them. Meanwhile, online pimp “talent agencies” are using TikTok to funnel users into pornographic content creation.
X (Twitter)
X has become the front page for sexual abuse online, amplifying exploitation instead of preventing it. Not only did the platform decide to take “no action” on child sexual abuse material, but it continues to facilitate child abuse, image-based sexual abuse, AI deepfake pornography, prostitution / sex trafficking, and more. Its policies and lack of enforcement make X a safe harbor for abusers and a nightmare for survivors.
Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg says “I’m sorry,” but his actions tell a different story. Under his leadership, Meta’s platforms—Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp—have become breeding grounds for child sexual abuse, grooming, sextortion, and trafficking, prioritizing profits over safety. From algorithms recommending predators to teens, to AI chatbots engaging in sexualized conversations with minors, Zuckerberg has consistently failed to protect children while allowing abuse to thrive unchecked.
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