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The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and its partners blocked at least 8.8 million attempts by UK internet users to access videos and images of children suffering sexual abuse during lockdown
A specialised taskforce will stop the spread of child sexual abuse images by taking ‘digital fingerprints’ of each picture.
Child safety organisations have welcomed the governments inclusion of child abuse victims in its violence against women and girls strategy.
A "pioneering" new partnership between the Internet Watch Foundation and MindGeek will offer a blueprint for how the adult industry can help in the fight against child sexual abuse material online.
In a review of material posted on the dark web, the Internet Watch Foundation found that deepfakes featuring children were becoming more extreme.