Omegle

Omegle, a website that connected strangers for video chats, has shut down after a lawsuit accused it of facilitating child abuse.

The video chatting platform had been hit by a barrage of lawsuits and allegations of fostering child predators and white supremacists.

The video chat service that randomly paired strangers gained a reputation as a realm for sexual predators.

Video chat website Omegle has shut down after 14 years of matching internet strangers together for video calls.

Omegle was founded in 2009 by Leif K-Brooks with a mission to facilitate conversation. Here's how it got accused of enabling child sex abuse.

Omegle connected strangers to one another and had a long-standing problem of pairing minors with sexual predators. A legal settlement took it down.

Omegle, a random video chat site that began with the ideal of connecting strangers but one that's also long been accused of enabling sexual predators, ...

The closure of Omegle, a video chat service that randomly connected strangers, came soon after the settlement of a U.S. civil suit accusing the platform of ...