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on Tuesday, citing a disturbing rise in explicit materials that predators coerced victims into making—urging tech companies and online platforms to take swift action amid sluggish regulation and rising dangers from artificial intelligence.
The figure, which IWF said was obtained through “proactive searching” and analyzing nearly 400,000 reports coming in from more than 50 reportingin the United States, the report said, the same proportion as the year before and more than any other country bar the Netherlands, where a third were hosted.
IWF said its analysts found 2,401 self-generated images and videos of children ages three to six, the vast majority of girls , which “shows for the first time” how “opportunistic” predators are increasingly targeting young children and manipulating them into “disturbing acts” of sexual abuse online, often using phones or devices within the family home.
The IWF said tech companies and online platforms should “act immediately” to implement stronger safeguards for children online rather than waiting for governments to implement tougher regulations or for tighter rules to take effect, as is the case for the U.K.’s Online Safety Act.As well as increasing in quantity, the IWF said its analysts have also found child sexual abuse material is getting more “extreme.
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