Young children are now more exposed to being groomed online due to a reliance on tech devices in lockdown, a charity has claimed.
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.
Online child sexual abuse is at record high levels, according to exclusive figures given to ITV News.
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.
A new report from the IWF shows how the pace of AI development has not slowed as offenders are using better, faster and more accessible tools to generate new criminal images and videos.
IWF analysts have worked through the coronavirus lockdown to make sure children are kept safe.
AI-Generated Child Abuse Sexual Imagery Threatens to “Overwhelm” Internet
The US now hosts more child sexual abuse material online than any other country
Digital fingerprints of a million images of child sexual abuse have been created, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has said.
Jordan King, reporter for Metro, looks at IWF transcripts showing actual conversations between online groomers and child victims