‘Record levels of web pages hosting child sex abuse imagery discovered in 2024’

Published:  Wed 23 Apr 2025

Record levels of web pages hosting child sexual abuse imagery were discovered in 2024, a leading online safety organisation has said.

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), which finds and helps remove abuse imagery online, said 291,273 reports of child sexual abuse imagery were reported in 2024.

In its annual report, the organisation said it was seeing rising numbers of cases being driven by threats, including AI-generated sexual abuse content, sextortion and the malicious sharing of nude or sexual imagery.

Read the full article at The Standard.

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