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Spain Orders Criminal Investigation Into X, Meta, and TikTok Over Alleged AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material
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Spain Orders Criminal Investigation Into X, Meta, and TikTok Over Alleged AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material

"The Council of Ministers will invoke Article 8 of the Organic Statute of the Public Prosecution Service to request that it investigate the crimes that X, Meta and TikTok may be committing through the creation and dissemination of child pornography by means of their AI," Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez wrote on X on Tuesday.

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Online Social Media, Child Sexual Abuse Material Spreads Faster than it Can Be Taken Down
CSAM, Child Abuse Materials, Child Sexual Abuse Materials, Child Pornography Michelle Friedman CSAM, Child Abuse Materials, Child Sexual Abuse Materials, Child Pornography Michelle Friedman

Online Social Media, Child Sexual Abuse Material Spreads Faster than it Can Be Taken Down

Child sexual abuse material runs rampant on the internet thanks to popular social media platforms like Facebook, even despite attempts to crack down on its spread. We need scalable technology to address it.

BY Glen Pounder and Rasty Turek

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The Mass Trauma of Porn
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The Mass Trauma of Porn

Pornography - Today, in the U.S., the average age of first exposure is twelve. And this does not just happen on dedicated porn sites. Learn more about the disturbing impact pornography is having on Generation Z in an article authored by Freya India as published in Beyond Babel.

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An Investigation into Self-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material Networks on Social Media
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An Investigation into Self-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material Networks on Social Media

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos are joined by Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) Research Manager Renée DiResta and Chief Technologist David Thiel to discuss a 2023 report on a months-long investigation into the distribution of illicit sexual content by minors online. The SIO research team identified a large network of accounts claiming to be minors, likely teenagers, who are producing, marketing and selling their own explicit content on social media.

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