Sex abuse and racism rife on ‘Tinder for teens’ used by millions of British children

When an undercover Sunday Times reporter posed as a 15-year-old girl on Yubo she was exposed to a slew of vile content

The Sunday Times

It is dinner time on a Friday evening and a teenage girl is sitting in her bedroom facing the camera on her laptop.

On the other end of the screen, boys are telling her to take her clothes off. “Your tits look heavy, do you want me to hold them?” a boy says. “I’d still dog you darling,” another replies.

Later on a boy asks if he can call a girl, who is black, a “dirty little slave”. Another group livestream is titled “n***a lynching clubhouse”.

The conversations are all happening on a social media app called Yubo, which is known as “Tinder for teens” and allows children aged 13 to 17 to make contact with individuals as well as to join “lives” where they