Nude kik groups - Man extorted young girls for nude photos then demanded more

Periscope added minimal functionality last year that allows chat comments to be flagged as spam or abuse, but that system relies on other users in the chat to verify a comment is harmful.

Simply by design, Periscope has to contend with the worst problems of both chatrooms and live video.

Gizmodo alerted Twitter to ongoing issues with child exploitation on Periscope, providing a series of questions as well as a list of accounts seemingly seeking child pornography, all but one of which have since been banned.

We did, however, attempt to contact users among the 50 accounts who provided an email address, though none replied to a request for comment.