Cross-platform manipulation
How harm starts on one platform and continues through WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram or crypto wallets - often invisible to any single platform's safety team and rarely investigated end-to-end.
Scope of this assessment area
Most modern online harm is multi-platform by design. Perpetrators move you through a chain - adult platform to encrypted messenger to crypto wallet to social-media leverage - so that no single platform sees enough to act. Mapping the whole chain is the only way to disrupt it.
What we look for
Observable patterns that trigger investigation under this area.
Criteria a platform is scored against
Each criterion is publicly defined and applied consistently across every platform we review.
Signal-of-harm exchange
Standardised sharing of confirmed-bad accounts / wallets between platforms.
Messenger-app cooperation
Working channel with Meta, Telegram, Signal trust teams.
Common reporting taxonomy
So a complaint on one platform is intelligible on the next.
Cross-jurisdiction escalation
Mutual legal-assistance routes that actually move at incident speed.
User-facing education
In-product warnings against being moved to encrypted channels.
If you are affected - what to do first
Sequential, low-risk actions you can take right now.
Log every channel
List every platform where contact happened, with handles and timestamps.
Report on each, cross-referenced
Each platform should know the others were involved.
Freeze visible social presence
Lock accounts the perpetrator can see; rotate identifiers if needed.
Privacy refresh
Remove avatar / username overlap across platforms; rotate emails / phone numbers.
Have evidence in this area?
Submit confidentially - encrypted at rest, named reviewers only, you can submit anonymously.