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Sexual abuse imagery
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has published its annual report setting out data and insights from its work to end child sexual abuse imagery online. The report explores the intelligence gathered by the IWF in 2024 through its assessment of child sexual abuse images and videos on the internet. Of the 424,047 reports that were assessed by the IWF, 291,273 reports were confirmed to either contain criminal imagery of child sexual abuse, link to this criminal imagery or were found advertising it (a 6% increase from 2023). Findings also show increases in sexual abuse imagery of teenagers under 18 and highlight concerns around the online sexual abuse and exploitation they face.
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Read the report: IWF annual data & insights report 2024