Big Tech companies, including Apple, Meta and Google, have ¡°significant gaps¡± in tackling child sexual abuse and the growing threat of online sexual extortion, Australia¡¯s internet regulator said on Tuesday.

Online platforms are failing to use available technologies that can identify well-known coercion ?scripts used by sexual extortion offenders, eSafety said in a transparency report.

¡°In several cases, we have provided ?these platforms ?with evidence of how their services are being colonized by criminals to devastating impact, with clear ?guidance on how to stem the abuse,¡± said eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant.