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The use of AI-generated imagery in fabricating news stories.
Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) is the industry-preferred term for media that depicts the sexual abuse or exploitation of minors, replacing the older legal label “child pornography” because it bett...
Detection of CSAM downloading on platforms relies predominantly on automated matching and content analysis: companies use hashing systems to flag known files and machine-learning tools to surface nove...
Platforms’ responses to have ranged from ad hoc to hurried creation of notice-and-removal systems under legal pressure, but enforcement remains uneven and contested; new U.S. law — the — now forces co...
Social-media posts and thinly sourced websites in October 2025 circulated a dramatic account that verbally attacked on live television and that Baez later sued Leavitt for $50 million; multiple fact-c...
Some offenders go undetected or uninvestigated because an explosive, global flow of reports overwhelms limited investigative capacity, while technical, legal and cross-border barriers let sophisticate...
First-time viewers of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) can face a spectrum of prosecutorial responses that ranges from aggressive charging and plea bargaining to proposals for non-carceral diversion...
A file host can still show CSAM after a report for several mundane and structural reasons: notification and verification delays, jurisdictional or hosting-chain complexities, technical limits in detec...