message is scanned in real time to identify problems. Flagged accounts have to download another app named Yoti to get their age verified. Verified users are marked with a yellow badge on their profile. Controversies Safety Issues Yubo had increased media attention after its app popularized in 2019. It was quickly deemed "Tinder for Teens" by several online resources as Yubo highlights a swiping feature similar to the popular dating app. This feature gave the app an implication of "dating" rather than community or friendship as users would only interact with those they found sexually attractive. There have been several cases of predatory behavior, grooming, child pornography, and exploitation of minors in relation to the app. Following these incidents, various measures were taken by Yubo. Yubo entered into a partnership with Yoti in February 2019 to use their age estimation technology to analyze faces and estimate how old users are. The company claims it has already checked more than 22 million profile pictures and removed a "few thousand" profiles belonging to under-13s as a result. Yubo has since placed further safeguards on the app such as a proactive "engage and educate" approach for their community, a mix between AI and human moderators, banning sexually explicit profile content, and auto-blocking fake profiles. However, there is still a possibility for users to create fake profiles containing images of minors as an attempt to hide their true identity. In 2018, Yubo joined the eSafety Commissioner's Tier 1 social media scheme in Australia for resolving cyberbullying. Australian eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, declared: "Altering its age restrictions, improving its real identity policy, setting clear policies around inappropriate content and cyberbullying, and giving users the ability to turn location data off demonstrates that Yubo is taking user safety seriously". In 2020, Yubo announced a partnership with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). Yubo will share data in the event of "suspected illegal activity involving minors". Yubo also implemented an algorithm which scans livestreams. If the algorithm detects inappropriate content in a livestream, the livestream is automatically removed. An independent report on child sexual abuse in the United Kingdom estimates that "the value of human moderation is evident from the success achieved by the social network Yubo, whose moderators interrupt livestreams to tell underage users to put their clothes on". In February 2021, Yubo launched pop-up alerts in an attempt to prevent inappropriate