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Evening Standard
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Saqib Shah

Omegle shuts down: Anonymous chat site was used to commit ‘heinous crimes’, says owner

The founder of Omegle has shut down the anonymous chat website over safety concerns.

Leif K-Brooks, who launched the site in 2009 at the age of 18, said Omegle had been “misused to commit unspeakably heinous crimes".

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