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Full feature-length AI films of child sexual abuse will be ‘inevitable’ as synthetic videos make ‘huge leaps’ in sophistication in a year
AI-generated child sexual abuse videos have surged 400% in 2025, with experts warning of increasingly realistic, extreme content and the urgent need for regulation to prevent full-length synthetic abuse films.
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‘Disturbing’ AI-generated child sexual abuse images found on hidden chatbot website that simulates indecent fantasies
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MEP visits IWF ahead of vital negotiations in EU Parliament on AI child sexual abuse content
Dutch MEP Jeroen Lenaers visits the IWF offices in Cambridge, UK, to hear directly from frontline experts about the harms of AI in the fight against online child sexual abuse.
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Latest Internet Watch Foundation report shows Europe now hosts 60% of child sexual abuse webpages
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Child sexual abuse content increasingly being ‘masked’ online to hide crimes – latest global data
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‘Disturbing’ rise in videos of children who have been groomed into filming their own abuse
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‘Terrifying escalation’ in battle to keep children safe online as new figures reveal 300,000 people in the UK could pose sexual threat to children
The National Crime Agency (NCA) has revealed it believes there are a minimum 300,000 individuals in the UK posing a sexual threat to children, either through physical “contact” abuse or online.
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Analyst's ‘hunch’ leads to British schoolgirl’s rescue from online child sexual abuse
An IWF analyst’s instincts told him he could act quickly to intervene after he received an anonymous tip off.
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Is this the UK’s toughest job?
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Young men in London least likely in the UK to think child sex abuse imagery is the biggest problem on the internet
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Europe remains ‘global hub’ for hosting of online child sexual abuse material
Europe remains the world’s largest hoster of child sexual abuse imagery with 62% of known images and videos being traced to a European Union country* in 2021.
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Pornhub: Data out of context tells us nothing.
We have a powerful sense of mission, with clarity, focus and purpose to our work. Our one single task – beyond all else – is the elimination of child sexual abuse material online.