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The controversial online chat website Omegle is facing intense scrutiny and backlash from global child protection groups over concerns that predators are exploiting the platform’s anonymity to obtain self-generated child sexual abuse material from minors. Despite stating users should be 18 or older, Omegle has no age verification process in place, allowing children and teens to be paired at random with strangers.

Omegle’s popularity has surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, with new research showing the site grew from around 34 million visits per month globally in January 2020 to a staggering 65 million by January 2021. Interest has spiked particularly in the US, UK, India and Mexico as Omegle gained viral traction on TikTok, with videos tagged “Omegle” receiving over 9.4 billion views.

In the UK alone, traffic to Omegle increased by 61% in December 2020, with 3.7 million visits predominantly from users under age 34, including many teenagers. The site has been promoted by popular influencers like KSI, Charli D’Amelio and James Charles.

Despite Omegle’s claim of being moderated, an investigation by journalists found rampant exposure to sexually explicit content and activity on the platform:

• In just 10 hours of monitoring, dozens of underage users were connected, some appearing as young as 7 or 8 years old
• Within a 2-hour period, there were 12 random connections with masturbating men, 8 naked males, and 7 porn advertisements
• Two apparent prepubescent boys were witnessed masturbating live on video chat, one claiming to be 14 years old

Judy Krevitz, a spokeswoman from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in the US, stated “The speed in which you found possible child sexual abuse material should underscore the necessity of age verification on social media platforms.”

Global child protection advocates and experts are urgently calling for stricter age verification measures, better moderation, and increased accountability for Omegle and similar platforms that enable the exploitation and potential trafficking of minors.

Schools, police forces and government agencies in multiple countries including the UK, US, France, Canada and Australia have recently issued warnings about the risks of Omegle due to the lack of safeguards for children.

As Omegle’s popularity continues to grow, particularly among teenagers on platforms like TikTok, child safety groups warn the company is failing to protect underage users from harmful exposure to predators and sexually explicit content. They insist more must be done to verify ages and implement robust moderation to prevent the sexual exploitation of minors on the platform.