{"id":84763,"date":"2025-12-18T14:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/parents-of-teenage-sextortion-victim-sue-meta-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T14:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:45:11","slug":"parents-of-teenage-sextortion-victim-sue-meta-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/parents-of-teenage-sextortion-victim-sue-meta-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents of teenage sextortion victim sue Meta | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Scottish couple whose teenage son took his own life after being blackmailed on Instagram are suing the platform&#8217;s owner <!--more--> Meta, in what&#8217;s thought to be the first UK case of its kind.<\/p>\n<p>Murray Dowey was 16 when he died in his home in Dunblane in December 2023 after he was targeted by scammers posing as a young girl.<\/p>\n<p>His parents have now launched legal action against Meta in a US court seeking punitive damages claiming that Instagram was not safe. Their lawyers are claiming the company &#8220;knew of safety features that would prevent sextortion&#8221; prior to his death and instead &#8220;prioritised profit&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Meta previously said it had made real changes to Instagram, and said it supports law enforcement to prosecute the criminals behind sextortion, adding &#8220;we continue to fight them on our apps on multiple fronts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Scotland #Meta #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Scottish couple whose teenage son took his own life after being blackmailed on Instagram are suing the platform&#8217;s owner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}