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  1. IWF urges for ‘loophole’ to be closed in proposed EU laws criminalising AI child sexual abuse as synthetic videos make ‘huge leaps’ in sophistication

    New data reveals AI child sexual abuse continues to spread online as criminals create more realistic, and more extreme, imagery.

  2. Children coerced to insert household objects into themselves – including a toothbrush and a recorder – for online predators’ pleasure

  3. Vital EU regulation needed to prevent the coercion of children online into most severe form of sexual abuse, as highlighted by new IWF study

  4. Prime Minister must act on threat of AI as IWF ‘sounds alarm’ on first confirmed AI-generated images of child sexual abuse

    IWF confirms it has begun to see AI-generated imagery of child sexual abuse being shared online, with some examples being so realistic they would be indistinguishable from real imagery.

  5. AI – the power to harm and to help. New podcast episode from the IWF

    This episode explores what needs to be done to try and control the explosion in harmful AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery.

  6. Working internationally & fighting self-generated content

  7. New partnership aims to protect children online and advance safer digital advertising

    ‘Protected by Mediocean’, a leading solution for holistic ad verification has joined the Internet Watch Foundation to strengthen safeguards in the digital media supply chain and help protect children online.

  8. How AI is being abused to create child sexual abuse imagery

    Explore the IWF 2026 AI CSAM Report. Discover why AI-generated child abuse videos increased by 26,385% in 2025 and the emerging risks of agentic AI and LoRAs.

  9. The horror and the heartbreak - how one child sexual abuse survivor’s torment will never end thanks to AI

    A chilling excerpt from a new IWF report that delves into what analysts at the child protection charity currently see regarding synthetic or AI-generated imagery of child sexual abuse.

  10. AI becoming ‘child sexual abuse machine’ adding to ‘dangerous’ record levels of online abuse, IWF warns

  11. 20,000 reports of coerced ‘self-generated’ sexual abuse imagery seen in first half of 2022 show 7- to 10-year-olds

    New data released by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) shows almost 20,000 webpages of child sexual abuse imagery in the first half of 2022 included ‘self-generated’ content of 7- to 10-year-old children.

  12. New EU-funded safety tech will help reduce viewing and demand for child sexual abuse images and videos

    A unique safety tech tool which uses machine learning in real-time to detect child sexual abuse images and videos is to be developed by a collaboration of EU and UK experts.