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At least 150 accounts shared “millions” of posts on X over a four-day period in July that encouraged users to buy child exploitation materials, an investigation has found.

Snapchat logged about 20,000 cases last year of adults grooming children online, more than other social media platforms combined

Exclusive: NSPCC finds Apple implicated in more cases of predators sharing child abuse imagery in England and Wales alone than the company reported globally in a year

Safety groups say images are so lifelike that it can be hard to see if real children were subject to harms in production

In 2011, Timmothy Pitzen’s mother took him out of school for a spontaneous road trip. Three days later, she had killed herself but there was no trace of the boy, who is still missing 13 years later. Loved ones say a clue to his whereabouts was in her suicide note.…

It takes a lot to shock Kelvin Lay. My friend and colleague was responsible for setting up Africa’s first dedicated child exploitation and human trafficking units, and for many years he was a senior investigating officer for the Child Exploitation Online Protection Centre at the UK’s National Crime Agency, specialising…

Steven Anderegg allegedly used the Stable Diffusion AI model to generate photos; if convicted, he could face up to 70 years in prison

Exclusive: Paul Raffile held webinar where he said app failed to protect children, and his offer was rescinded hours later

More children and families extorted with AI-made photos and videos, says National Center for Missing and Exploited Children