CSAM hosting around the world rose 64 percent last year, and a surge in the United States put it second behind the Netherlands, a new report found.
Internet Watch Foundation says amount of material showing most extreme form of sexual abuse has doubled since 2020
Images of children aged as young as seven being abused online have risen by almost two thirds while the number of webpages found to contain the most extreme material has doubled in recent years, according to a report.
The Home Office said fake images are being used to blackmail children and force them to livestream further abuse.
Britain will make it illegal to use artificial intelligence tools that create child sexual abuse images.
Europe’s largest hotline, the Internet Watch Foundation, is using this year’s Safer Internet Day to urge the European Commission to bring forward long awaited legislation to address the growing threat to children online.
IWF calls for changes to Bill to ensure it does not disrupt current mechanisms for stopping child sexual abuse on the internet
The US now hosts more child sexual abuse material online than any other country
Jordan King, reporter for Metro, looks at IWF transcripts showing actual conversations between online groomers and child victims
Senior writer at WIRED, Matt Burgess, looks into Pornhub trialling a new automated tool that pushes CSAM-searchers to seek help for their online behaviour
A day in the life of the IWF’s child abuse image taskforce. "They know they are about to witness some of the most upsetting things ever uploaded onto the internet"
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has hashed more than a million images in a ‘major boost’ to internet safety.