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Online CSAM prosecution

Federal enforcement priorities and public documents on removal, investigation, and prosecution of online CSAM

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Jan 13, 2026
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Are people who are exposed to CSAM on Instagram in trouble? Makes me scared and anxious

Exposure to child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on Instagram is terrifying but not automatically criminal; platforms remove and investigate such content, and U.S. law criminalizes possession and distri...

Jan 27, 2026
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What appellate cases reversed CSAM convictions due to authentication failures, and what went wrong in forensic practice?

The most prominent federal appellate decision that curtailed a on evidentiary grounds is , where found the government failed to establish the reliability of Google’s automated screening and therefore ...