Meta to help young Australians hunt down their nudes in bid to tackle image-based abuse on Facebook and Instagram

Meta is joining Take It Down to help young people who fear that their intimate photos or videos have been splashed across the internet.  (Reuters: Dado Ruvic)

Underage Australians trying to scrub their nudes from the internet could soon find the job easier after one of the world's biggest social media giants revealed it was signing up to a new service designed to hunt down explicit images.

Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, is joining Take It Down, a new platform which was developed by the National Centre for Missing & Exploited Children in the United States to help young people remove sexually explicit content of themselves.