Pope Francis welcomed to the Vatican participants from an international congress designed to get faith communities, police, software and social media industries, mass media, nonprofits and governments working together to better protect minors.
Pope pledges church commitment to fight child abuse online, offline
Facebook, Microsoft try to keep up with vast scale of online abuse
Representatives from Facebook — the largest social media site in the world — and Microsoft — the world’s biggest software company — called for increased cooperation among businesses, governments and law enforcement to develop, share and utilize digital tools to prevent and stop abuse and bring perpetrators to justice.