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UK teens are facing a rise in threats of financially motivated sexual extortion (or sextortion). This week the @IWFhotline appeared on @GMB to warn about the growing danger.

Filipino woman 'haunted' by livestreamed child abuse: Could AI stop the crime in its tracks? ITV News Presenter @Julie_Etch reports itv.com/news/2025-07-1…

A new flood of child sexual abuse material created by artificial intelligence is hitting a tipping point of realism, threatening to overwhelm the authorities. “There is an absolute tsunami we are seeing,” says our Interim CEO Derek Ray-Hill. nytimes.com/2025/07/10/tec…

Our Chair, Catherine Brown, Interim Development Director, Rachel Roxburgh, and Head of Membership, Neil Prowse, will be attending the TrustCon event in San Francisco on 21-23 July, the global conference dedicated to trust and safety professionals who are responsible for keeping…

MyLondon says Hillingdon Council decision to stop engaging with its local democracy reporter over alleged "political bias" is "aggressive, unnecessary and akin to a toddler tantrum" and shows the journalist is effectively holding the authority to account mylondon.news/news/west-lond…

🚨 New #podcast alert! Topic: Protecting children from sexual abuse Guests: 🔵@jeroen_lenaers MEP 🔵@fxbellamy MEP 🔵 Julie Fuchs, @ECPAT International 🔵 Hannah Swirsky, @IWFhotline Tune in! #CSAM

The possession and consumption of AI child sexual abuse material #AICSAM is not a victimless crime, warns the @IWFhotline's acting CEO Derek Ray-Hill in an interview with @DIEZEIT

Im Netz steigt die Zahl von KI-Fotos und -Videos, die sexuellen Kindesmissbrauch zeigen, rasant an. Ein opferloses Verbrechen? Keineswegs, warnt Experte Derek Ray-Hill. trib.al/DJnneow

Pädokriminelle nutzen zunehmend künstliche Intelligenz, um Aufnahmen von Kindesmissbrauch zu erstellen. Ermittler warnen, dass sie dadurch möglicherweise weniger Fälle von echtem Missbrauch stoppen können. dlvr.it/TLs6B9

AI video of child sexual absue now indistinguishable from real footage. @IWFhotline Interim CEO @derekrayhill said: "The children depicted are often real & recognizable. The harm this causes is real & the threat it poses threatens to escalate further." spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzp…

AI-generated child sexual abuse reports have surged 400%, according to the Internet Watch Foundation bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Plus: An “explosion” of AI-generated child abuse images is taking over the web, a Russian professional basketball player is arrested on ransomware charges, and more. wired.com/story/4-arrest…

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One criminal asks why there isn't more child sexual abuse imagery from within nurseries before saying, with AI, it doesn't matter. They can create 'all the fun they want'. @SophieBraybrook investigates the horrifying rise of AI child sexual abuse. youtube.com/watch?v=-vqOvt…

The @IWFhotline is the 'canary in the coal mine' warning about AI child sexual abuse. What our analysts see is shocking even them. Tech is evolving at a staggering rate. Often it is trained on real children - the harm & the danger is real. ✍️@ceciliakang nytimes.com/2025/07/10/tec…

⚠️New - AI can now create utterly life-like & convincing child sexual abuse videos. @IWFhotline says reports of AI child sexual abuse are up 400%, and window of opportunity for regulators to get a grip is closing fast. theguardian.com/technology/202…

There has been a major increase in child sexual abuse videos made with AI. Exclusive data shared with Channel 4 News shows that 1,300 videos have been found globally so far in 2025 - compared to only 2 in the same time last year. Warning: this report contains distressing…

“People say we should protect users’ privacy. What about mine?” These were the words of a survivor of child sexual abuse material, shared by MEP Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová at the European Parliament. As AI tools make it easier to generate synthetic abuse content, victims are…

🔎 All you need to know about child sexual abuse imagery generated by AI. Read and share our new resource, created in partnership @IWFhotline, designed for professionals working with young people. Download today: ceopeducation.co.uk/professionals/…

Children are being groomed and coerced online in astonishing numbers, warns our Interim CEO @derekrayhill. “This will be the next grooming crisis unless we all act now, as a society, to protect children from the dangers.” thesun.co.uk/news/35612385/…

Online child sexual abuse will be the next grooming crisis unless we all act now, as a society, to protect children from the dangers. We must not look back in years to come and say we did not know, warns @IWFhotline Interim CEO @derekrayhill the-sun.com/news/14583000/…