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ER Editor: Regular readers of this site know we are interested in exposing information on elite pedophile networks and the industries that feed them. We publish this BBC piece below in that spirit.
Sexually coerced extortion or ‘sextortion’ is a type of blackmail where someone tries to use intimate imagery of another person to make them do something they don’t want to do.
If you find yourself, your child, or a friend in a situation like this, visit https://t.co/PpWtFQwr1q… pic.twitter.com/yCe36biWPg
— Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) (@IWFhotline) March 3, 2025
“I’ve seen Olivia grow up through cruel images and videos, suffering hideous abuse. She was repeatedly raped and sexually tortured,” says one of our analysts.
Images of Olivia’s abuse are widely circulated on the internet, and now an AI model designed to generate new imagery of…
— Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) (@IWFhotline) March 7, 2025
In 2023, there was a 22% increase in Category A child sexual abuse material we identified – from 51,369 in 2022, to 62,652 in 2023. The trend for the past three years has seen increases in the most serious Category A content. Read more in our 2023 Annual… pic.twitter.com/4CiQZB3DGP
— Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) (@IWFhotline) February 27, 2025
https://www.iwf.org.uk/about-us/how-we-assess-and-remove-content/
We work to make the internet a safer place. We help victims of child sexual abuse worldwide by identifying and removing online images and videos of their abuse. We search for child sexual abuse images and videos and then we have them removed. Our Hotline offers a safe place for the public to report anonymously.
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Websites that are accessible to internet users in the UK are not necessarily hosted – that means created and stored – in the UK. They could be hosted on servers located anywhere in the world. How we take action on criminal images and videos will depend on where they are hosted. Our analysts are experts in using technical internet tracing techniques to locate criminal content. We use at least three methods to trace and determine the geographical location of the server on which the content is hosted at the time of assessment. This helps us to pass accurate details to the relevant hotline or police agency or take action ourselves in partnership with the company whose services are being abused.
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I wish my job didn’t exist – the team that has to find child abuse images
GEMMA DUNSTAN for BBC NEWS
At home she is a loving grandmother who enjoys spending time with her grandkids but at work Mabel has to watch the internet’s most “abhorrent” child sex abuse.
She works for one of the few organisations licensed to actively search the internet for indecent content to help police and tech firms take the images down.
BBC Tamsin McNally feels the work of organisations like the Internet Watch Foundation is more important than everThe Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) helped remove a record almost 300,000 web pages last year, including more artificial intelligence (AI) generated images than ever as the number of these types of images have increased almost fivefold.
“The content is horrific, it shouldn’t ever have been created in the first place,” said Mabel, a former police officer.
“You don’t ever become immune to it, because at the end of the day these are all child victims, it’s abhorrent.”
Mabel – not her real name – is exposed to some of the most depraved and horrific images online and said her family were her main motivation for carrying out her analyst role.
Mabel calls herself a “disruptor” and said she likes obstructing criminal gangs who share abuse footage and images to make money.
The foundation’s analysts are given anonymity so they feel safe and secure from those who object to their work, such as criminal gangs.
“There’s not many jobs where you go to work in the morning and do good all day, and also irritate really bad people, so I get the best of both worlds,” said Mabel, originally from north Wales.
“When I remove an image, I’m physically stopping the bad people accessing those images.
“I have children and grandchildren and I just want to make the internet a safer place for them.
“On a wider scale, we collaborate with law enforcement agencies all around the world so they can form an investigation and maybe put gangs to bay.”
The IWF is one of only three organisations in the world licensed to actively search for child abuse content online and last year helped take down 291,270 web pages which can contain thousands of image and videos.
The foundation, based in Cambridge, also said it helped take down almost five times more AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery this year than last, rising to 245 compared to 51 in 2023.
The UK government last month announced four new laws to tackle images made with AI.
The content is not easy for Tamsin McNally and her 30-strong team to see, but she knows their work helps protect children.
“We make a difference and that’s why I do it,” the team leader said.
“On Monday morning I walked into the hotline and we had over 2,000 reports from members of the public stating that they had stumbled across this kind of imagery. We get hundreds of reports every single day.
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Many tech firm moderators have ongoing legal claims as employees claimed the work had destroyed their mental health – but the foundation said its duty of care was “gold standard”.
Analysts at the charity have mandatory monthly counselling, weekly team meetings and regular wellbeing support.
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The IWF has strict guidelines making sure personal phones are not allowed in the office or that any work, including emails, are not taken out.
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“Offenders can be described as their own community – and as part of that they have their own language or code that they use to hide in plain sight,” said Manon.
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