Published: Sat 13 Nov 2021
Written by: Sky News
Analysts are finding 15 times as much child sexual abuse material on the internet as they were 10 years ago, leaving them battling a "tidal wave of criminal material".
The Internet Watch Foundation said its analysts have taken action against 200,000 websites containing child sexual abuse material this year - a record number.
The charity said this number was compared to 153,350 sites in all of 2020, and 13,161 in 2011 - meaning a 1,419% increase in confirmed cases of child sexual abuse content over the past decade.
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The BBC’s been investigating the rise in child sex abuse material resulting from the rapid proliferation of open-source AI image generators.
