[6] Her organization, WiredSafety, became a member of Facebook's Safety Advisory Board in 2009[7] and in April, Aftab appeared on Good Morning America for its town hall meeting on sexting.

[2] In 2010 she received the FBI Director's Community Leadership Award and[8][9] was one of 28 members in the Online Safety and Technology Working Group of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.

[12] Aftab was the organizer for a 2015 anti-cyberbullying event in Ireland,[13] and has been a member of the advisory boards for MTV's A Thin Line,[14] Fair Play, Sesame Street Online and the Ad Council.

[17] In 2010, she was forced to cancel a Good Morning America appearance (where she would be discussing the cyberbullying campaign against Jessi Slaughter by members of 4chan's /b/ board) due to targeted harassment, which included Google bombing baseless accusations of child molestation against Aftab.

[17][18] According to the British blogger Katie Jones, Aftab tried to coerce her into releasing control of the domain, Katie.com, which was also the name of a newly published book, Katie.com: My Story.