Is there any independent verification of any of the claims of this article?
I am well aware that terrible stuff happens on the World Wide Web and it may well be that Bark was legitimately founded to stop that stuff, but as a natural skeptic I'm at least a tad concerned that this is self-published by a company that sells a service to catch these kinds of activities.
Were there no journalists interested in covering this story?
I haven’t seen anyone independently verify this article specifically, but it seems pretty consistent with the reporting the New York Times has been doing on this issue over the last few months, notably this article which I think was pretty popular on HN: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/28/us/child-sex-...
If you want to verify their claims, then perhaps you could contact the company and ask for the court cases they have been involved in. Those will be public records.
I am well aware that terrible stuff happens on the World Wide Web and it may well be that Bark was legitimately founded to stop that stuff, but as a natural skeptic I'm at least a tad concerned that this is self-published by a company that sells a service to catch these kinds of activities.
Were there no journalists interested in covering this story?
Is Bark profitable?