According to a bombshell NBC report, staffing cuts and other hullaballoo at Twitter may have slowed the website's ability to protect the child.
, the McConneys’ teen managed to resume contact with Kojima on Twitter via the family’s Meta VR headset without his parents’ knowledge. Kojima publicly shared sexual messages with the boy leading up to the eventual kidnapping at the end of December. On Dec. 13, Kojima tweeted, “Love you my sweet baby Lamb — daddy will do his best to be home before the holidays,” along with a shirtless photo of himself. The teen responded to his tweet, “shit, man I’m all packed and ready to go.
After police sought and received a warrant to obtain records from Twitter on Dec. 22, police told NBC the company didn’t respond until after the child was kidnapped. Even then, Sgt. Juan Moreno, who worked on the case, told NBC that Twitter “didn’t give us anything initially.”Police issued an amber alert on the afternoon of Dec. 27, the day the teen was abductedthat in replies to some of the tweets from @HunterFloofyFox, users tagged Musk.
The McConneys’ son was recovered on Dec. 28, 800 miles away in Nebraska, when someone reported a suspicious vehicle at a gas station, and a teen in the car was identified by police. Kojima was arrested and has been charged with four counts of sexual assault in Nebraska. He also faces federal kidnapping, coercion, and child pornography charges. Kojima pleaded not guilty in the state of Nebraska, and his trial there is scheduled for June.
period at around the same time as the kidnapping and the days leading up to it, possibly slowing down its ability to respond to police requests. Musk took over the company last October; the following month, the company halved its workforce, including key positions in community and specifically child safety. Many other competent top staffers resigned. Musk has repeatedly claimed to take child sexual predation on the platform seriously—but he
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