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The fact-check discusses the challenges in prosecuting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) cases, particularly those involving download-only users, due to various factors such as overwhelming report volumes, cross-border hosting, anonymizing technologies, and prioritization of production/contact investigations.
Yes—IP logs alone can trigger arrests and even lead to convictions in CSAM prosecutions, but they rarely, by themselves, satisfy the legal elements required for a reliable guilty verdict; successful p...
VPN use by a suspect can and often does create real investigative and evidentiary complications in CSAM cases: it obscures origin information, interacts with encryption and anonymizing tools used by o...
Public records and expert reporting show that vast volumes of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) reports overwhelm investigators, that reporting and detection are heavily platform-driven and internati...