Every tool on this page is free. The crisis lines are at the top on purpose. Start with the row that matches your situation.
| Situation | Who | How |
|---|---|---|
| Immediate physical danger | Emergency services | Call 911 |
| A child talks about self-harm or hopelessness | 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline | Call or text 988 |
| A child who would rather text | Crisis Text Line | Text HOME to 741741 |
| Threats or blackmail over images (sextortion) | FBI | report.fbi.gov · 1-800-CALL-FBI · ic3.gov |
| Sexually explicit content involving a minor | NCMEC CyberTipline | CyberTipline.org · 1-800-843-5678 |
Both work the same way. The image is fingerprinted on your own device and never uploaded. Participating platforms then find and remove anything that matches the fingerprint, automatically, everywhere they operate.
takeitdown.ncmec.org. For nude, partially nude, or sexually explicit images of anyone under 18, or taken when they were under 18. Real or AI-generated. Free, anonymous, run by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. If the image is on a platform, this is the strongest removal tool that exists.
18 and overStopNCII.org. The adult equivalent, operated by the Revenge Porn Helpline with the major platforms participating: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and others. Same system. Fingerprint locally, platforms match and remove.
Screenshot first, URL bar visible. Then report. Your Evidence Kit generates ready-to-paste report text for each platform.
| Platform | Path | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
| Post > menu > Report > "Bullying or harassment" or "Nudity or sexual activity" | Meta participates in Take It Down and StopNCII. File the fingerprint report too. | |
| TikTok | Video > Share > Report > "Harassment and bullying" or "AI-generated content" | TikTok requires realistic AI content to be labeled. Unlabeled synthetic media of a private person violates policy on its own. |
| Snapchat | Press and hold the Snap or Story > Report | Screenshot first. Content disappears. For urgent cases use the Safety Center's "Report a safety concern." |
| Discord | Right-click the message > Report, or dis.gd/report | You can report an entire server, not just one message. |
| Chat > contact name > Report | Do not delete the chat. Reporting forwards recent messages to WhatsApp as evidence. | |
| Google Search | Google's removal request tool | Google removes non-consensual explicit imagery from search results, AI included. The source page survives, but nobody finds it. |
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Bully.org image check | Our free checker. Provenance, metadata, and AI marker signals, plus the Evidence Kit generator. Runs entirely on your device. |
| Content Credentials Verify | Reads an image's C2PA provenance trail. Some AI tools, including Adobe, OpenAI, and Google, cryptographically label their output. If credentials exist, this shows them. |
| Google Lens · TinEye | Reverse image search. Find where else the image is posted. Run weekly during a re-upload watch and log every hit in your evidence inventory. |
| Google Alerts | Free monitoring. Set an alert for your child's name and catch new mentions without doomscrolling for them. |
| Organization | What they offer |
|---|---|
| Cyber Civil Rights Initiative | Image-based abuse helpline at 1-844-878-2274 and step-by-step removal guides. The leading advocacy organization for victims of non-consensual imagery. |
| NCMEC | Runs Take It Down and the CyberTipline. Family support resources after exploitation incidents. |
| PACER National Bullying Prevention Center | Parent guides, school advocacy templates, and educator resources for bullying in every form. |
| ConnectSafely | Plain-English parent guides to the safety settings of every major app. |