Collective Shout

16/12/2025

'The court filing shows that Meta leadership knowingly chose to expose teen users—particularly young women and girls—en masse to human traffickers and other child predators in order to protect its bottom line. These are quite possibly the most appalling revelations yet to emerge about the tech giant and they come at a moment when Congress is considering a flurry of new bills to regulate Meta and other social media providers.'

Since 2015 Meta:

🔘 Knowingly exposed minors to predators, including traffickers.

🔘 Prioritised engagement and profits over children’s safety.

🔘 Repeatedly rejected or watered down safety features recommended by their own teams.

🔘 Created conditions that allowed mass-scale access by predators to minors.

Academic philosopher, Nathan Witkin, argues this places Meta alongside to***co companies, opioid manufacturers, and major polluters in terms of corporate harm.

'Meta has created a vast digital machine for putting the most defenceless among us in danger. What’s worse, that machine has worked its way into our homes, into our pockets, into our children’s bedrooms. But now that we know what Meta is, and that its actions are worse than we could have imagined, there can no longer be any excuse for inaction. Children should not be allowed on Meta platforms. So long as they are, thousands more will be delivered into the arms of traffickers.'

Read more here: https://substack.pulse.ly/8mncqtfjzb

15/12/2025

📣 Take Action: Tell Calendar Club you don’t want to see their p*rny pop up Christmas calendars in your shopping centres!

Exposed women’s bums, barely covered breasts, women depicted p*rnified and s*xually inviting. Where? In calendars on open display in family shopping centres around the country.

Supporters angry about seeing these p*rnified products right out in the open at retail pop-up store Calendar Club, sent us these pics while shopping in Canberra and Perth.

Supporters may recall this time last year we went after Calendar Club, for flogging its p*rny pin-ups out in the open in busy shopping centre thoroughfares for all to see – including kids who may be attracted by the baby animal, squishy marshmallow and other cute children’s calendars.

Unfortunately, the company loves objectifying women and couldn’t care less about Corporate Social Responsibility – it’s doing it all again this year. Because, apparently, Christmas is a great time to profit from women who are merely a collection of s*xualised body parts ready to be used.

Calendar Club profits from these p*rn-inspired representations of women as s*xual playthings. Dehumanising women like this is unethical and a failure of CSR expectations. Global research shows that all women are harmed by s*xist and objectifying portrayals such as these.

A s*xist culture grooms s*xist boys. Calendar Club is contributing to the formation of s*xist attitudes which lead to harmful behaviours. We have to call them out!

>> Use our easy action button to send them a message today
https://actionbutton.nationbuilder.com/share/SPK-QEZAQEk=

15/12/2025

14/12/2025

The holiday season is upon us and there's no better time to review the safeguards you have in place to protect your children from online predators and s*xploitation.

Here, we give you some handy tips, resources and links to help keep your family safe these holidays.

Check out our guide to:
✅ Know the Risks
✅ Improve Online Safety
✅ Report Abuse
✅ Find Recommended Resources

https://www.collectiveshout.org/keeping-kids-safe-online

14/12/2025

Plenty of companies still s*xualise women and girls to sell products. But these ones don’t! Shop ethically this Christmas. Click here for links to each our partners! https://collectiveshout.pulse.ly/p0yao6sxzv

13/12/2025

Our ground-breaking research into sexual harassment in schools - in partnership with author and parenting expert Maggie Dent - was published a year ago. We've been really pleased to see the 'Sexual Harrasment of Teachers' [SHoT] report cited extensively in the media and in Sate and Federal inquiries into social media and harms of po*******hy.

The data we analysied from our survey of 1000 teachers was most recently cited in the Federal Education Department's Anti-Bullying Rapid Review. Read about it here.

for a world free of sexploitation

11/12/2025

Welcoming our new Corporate Social Responsibility pledge partner Fewra (meaning ‘flower’ in Maltese).

Christina explains why she’s passionate about our cause and shows MTR some of her beautiful homeopathic products which are perfect for Christmas giving!

If your business doesn’t objectify and s*xualise women and girls, comment below and we'll send you the link to join our growing list of businesses taking a stand for women and girls.

11/12/2025

Cross 'em Off! Give Honey Birdette shopping centres a miss this Christmas

"Years ago I complained to my local Westfield at Fountain Gate about these ads when we visited for Santa photos. Not only did I not get a response, the ads persisted.

Since then I travel an extra 10 minutes to Casey Central for all my shopping. Smaller but worth it to send a message in my small way that this is unacceptable."

- Kimberley, Collective Shout Supporter

Our supporters are voting with their wallets this Christmas by refusing to spend their hard-earned dollars with unethical corporates profiting from s*xploitation.

Boycott shopping centres hosting Playboy-owned s*x shop Honey Birdette and its p*rnified shop window ads.

Get our full 2025 blacklist at the link in comments - and find some ethical alternatives from our Corporate Pledge Partners too!

Westfield Australia Lendlease

11/12/2025

Online bullying su***de risk shows failure of social media platforms to protect vulnerable young people – MTR quoted in Herald Sun

Collective Shout movement director Melinda Tankard Reist, who speaks in schools across Australia including NSW to address cyber safety issues, said she was aware of children threatening su***de as a result of bullying.

“In some cases, girls have been very distraught thinking that a friend might be about to end their lives due to (bullying),” she said.

“This is another example of the failure of social media platforms to protect vulnerable young people and children are dying as a result.”

Leading cyber safety expert Susan McLean said social media companies such as TikTok had the “capacity” and “ability” to remove accounts that promote harmful content.

“The platform’s AI should be able to be programmed to find this sort of stuff so it can be removed,” she said.

“We know that if the content is removed quickly, the harm is lessened … But we need some well-placed criminal charges to fix this issue.”

Full article at link in comments.

11/12/2025

Campaigns Manager Caitlin Roper spoke at the Male Allies Challenging Sexism conference in Brighton, UK last month.

She spoke about our new research on n*difying and deepfake tech and how men and boys are using AI to sexually exploit women and girls.

Watch the presentation here.

Caitlin Roper (Campaigns Manager at Collective Shout): A tool to sexually exploit women & children: Why AI will not prevent abuse | Men Challenging Sexism Co...

10/12/2025

Australia's new legislation raising the minimum age for social media from 13 to 16 comes into effect today - a world first.

How can you support young people through this transition?

From the The Carly Ryan Foundation Inc.:

'Many young people will experience anxiety, withdrawal and genuine distress when social media access changes, because:

➡️ They’ve been using these platforms for many years

➡️ The platforms were deliberately designed to be habit-forming

➡️ Their friendships, identity and coping strategies are often tied to these spaces

➡️ Fear of missing out (FOMO) can feel overwhelming

➡️ Some children have used social media to regulate emotions or escape from stress

Parents need clear, compassionate guidance that normalises these reactions without minimising them.'

Access the guide here: https://www.carlyryanfoundation.com/posts/2025/12/01/social-media-transition-guide-release

ITS HERE!!

Our Social Media Transition Guide has officially launched created in direct response to what so many of you have been asking for.

With Australia’s social media delay coming into effect, we know families are navigating big changes. This guide brings together practical steps, conversation support, safety tips, and trusted reporting links to help children adapt with confidence and care.

This resource was built with the community, for the community and we hope it becomes a steady hand during a time of transition.

With sincere thanks to for supporting this important resource!

❤️ Download now on our website at carlyryanfoundation.com and via the link in our bio.

09/12/2025

On the final day of the 16 Days of Activism to end digital violence against all women and girls, we’re highlighting our groundbreaking new research on n*difying, deepfake and virtual girlfriend apps.

Using an AI-generated image of a non-existent young women, we tested out 20 different apps to see what they could do – and the results were alarming.

We found that n*difying apps can be used to create violent, p*rnographic abuse material of women and girls, using photos of real women and girls.

These apps don’t merely undress women and girls – they can insert their likeness into scenes of degrading, hardcore p*rnography.

We first raised the harms of n*difying tech in 2019. Since then, we have successfully lobbied for new laws punishing creation and distribution of s*xually explicit deepfakes and action on n*difying apps.

But we’re not done – we’re calling for a global ban on n*difying and undr*ssing apps, websites and programs.

Download our full report here >> https://www.collectiveshout.org/new-research-nudifying-apps