Photo polls allow voting for one of two photos in the post. In 2017, it introduced three new features - Photo Polls, Shoutouts, and Discover. In 2017, ASKfm reached of 215 million registered users and remained the largest Q&A network in the world. Also, now users can change the color of interface and add a background picture. The same year, ASKfm did a major rebranding, changed the logo, and made several interface improvements. In 2016 IAC sold it to Noosphere, a California-based asset management firm which also owns several online gambling services, and a cybersecurity provider. The company subsequently joined the European Commission's Internet Forum in 2015 to curb the spread of terrorist content and is implementing the joint industry hash database initiative to detect illegal terrorist content and also joined the UN Tech Against Terror initiative.Ģ016–present: Purchased by Noosphere and new cryptocurrency plans The ISIS accounts remained active a week after having been reported. An Ask.fm spokesperson said the company did not allow calls to violence or criminal activity. In 2014, BBC News documented Ask.fm being used by ISIS for recruiting and advice. Ask.fm officials met with the Department of Children to assure the proper steps are being taken to "significantly improve" protections on the website. Since IAC has acquired Ask.fm, it has relocated its headquarters to Dublin, Ireland. Ask.fm has since reconsidered its user safety policies and launched a Safety Advisory Board consisting of experts in digital safety, as well as a Safety Center. Since the acquisition, changes toward this goal have include parting ways with Ask.fm founders, Tarosh, whom Ask.com CEO Doug Leeds described as having a "laissez-faire" approach to safety and working with the New York Attorney General and the Maryland Attorney General to create a plan for site.
In August 2014, the site was purchased by IAC, who also owns Ask.com, with IAC announcing its intention to refocus on safety. 2014–2016: Purchased by IAC, terrorist content concerns, and collaboration with safety centers Later Hannah Smith's case of self-bullying became a subject of academic research. In fact, Det Sgt Wayne Simmons revealed that Hannah had been sending ‘bullying and aggressive messaging’ to herself. The further investigation showed there was no sufficient evidence to suggest that using the ASKfm site has led to the death of the young girl.
ASKfm also encouraged more users to have registered accounts, so the company could capture IP data for safety purposes. Above all, they enhanced reporting and blocking functionalities, and they hired more moderation staff to review reports within 24 hours upon receiving them. ASKfm also conducted an internal audit and made changes to its safety policies accordingly. The company responded by stating it was 'happy to help police'. Several advertisers responded by severing links with the site, including (amongst others) Save the Children, eBay, BT and Vodafone had already stopped advertising on the site.
įollowing the suicide of Smith, British Prime Minister David Cameron called for a boycott of websites that do not take responsibility for dealing with cyberbullying on their sites.
The Smith family calls were echoed by the parents of Goosnargh, Lancashire teenager Joshua Unsworth, who was reported to have been cyberbullied on the site prior to his suicide. He called for tighter controls against social networking sites like Ask.fm, saying that he had seen the abuse his daughter had received and it was wrong that it was anonymous. On 6 August 2013 it was reported that Hannah Smith, a 14-year-old girl from Leicestershire, England, had killed herself, and that her father blamed her death on cyberbullying responses she had received on the site. By 2013, ASKfm reached 65 million registered users and continued its growth by approx. The site was founded in Latvia by brothers Ilja (Iļja) and Mark Terebin (Marks Terebins), Oskars Liepiņš, Valērijs Višņakovs and Klāvs Sinka, and launched on 16 June 2010, as a rival to Formspring.
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