Published: Fri 20 Sep 2024
Dan Sexton, Chief Technology Officer at the IWF, appeared on national BBC Breakfast television this week (September 17) to warn Meta is not taking adequate steps to proactively prevent the sharing of child sexual abuse material on the platform.
It came as disgraced BBC news presenter Huw Edwards was handed a six-month prison sentence, suspended for two years after he admitted receiving some of the most extreme (Category A) child sexual abuse imagery from a convicted paedophile via WhatsApp.
Mr Sexton said: “What are they doing to make their platform safe and prevent this from happening to other children in the future?”.
Watch the BBC video clip here:
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