The Home Office said fake images are being used to blackmail children and force them to livestream further abuse.
IWF analyst 'Lucy' spoke to the BBC about her work tracking down and fighting against online child sexual abuse.
Isobel has been working throughout lockdown. With her colleagues in the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) analyst room in Cambridge she has been responding to a rising number of tipoffs from the public that child abuse images are circulating online. The work is gruelling.
Internet Watch Foundation says amount of material showing most extreme form of sexual abuse has doubled since 2020
A leading child protection organisation has warned that abuse of AI technology threatens to "overwhelm" the internet.
Explore how IWF's 2024 campaigns, including 'Think Before You Share' and 'Report Remove', raise awareness and support victims of online child sexual abuse.
People trying to view sexual images of children online will trigger a first-of-its-kind chatbot, which has launched to help potential offenders stop their behaviour.