After a friend told him she was sexually assaulted as a child, Ethan, whose last name has not been revealed, set out to lure potential pedophiles into speaking to him on the dating app Tinder. Using a Snapchat filter that uses augmented reality to overlay gendered facial features on a selfie, Ethan, 20, made an account of himself appearing as a girl and gave himself the name “Esther”. Police say the two then discussed engaging in sexual activity, despite the fact that Davies believed the subject was an underage girl. Ian Cull (@NBCian) He used Snapchat’s “gender switch” filter to pose as a 16-year-old girl online, and take down a police officer allegedly looking to hook up. In the Snapchat filter case, the student-turned-vigilante told a local NBC news station this was the first time he has done this, and will likely be the last.

Source: The Guardian June 12, 2019 21:11 UTC