
Josh Thomas
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Politics • Tech • Online Safety • Children's Rights • News & media for the Internet Watch Foundation • Journalist • Cymro • [email protected]
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“It keeps me awake at night. That’s how worried I am about the growing availability and access that people have to child sexual abuse material, both real and synthetic — so AI deepfakes,” said Jess Phillips. thesun.co.uk/news/35107081/…

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)'s dedicated crypto squad (as I call them) does incredible work globally to track down criminals using crypto currencies to pay for child sexual abuse. A Utah man has now been arrested thanks to their pioneering work. yahoo.com/news/utah-man-…


It made my day yesterday to hear Natalie Dormer speak passionately about online safety on BBC Woman's Hour and, of course, about the work of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). 🎧Listen from 18:42 in a discussion that includes a 'spoiler' from Anna Karenina...


Home Secretary Yvette Cooper tells MPs the Casey Report describes how child sexual exploitation is changing, with social media apps being used to lure children into physical abuse. “If Rotherham were to happen again today it would start online." bbc.co.uk/news/live/c629…

It's so important to discuss the risks posed by AI-generated child sexual abuse material #AIGCSAM. Experts from Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) gave BBC Cambridgeshire insight into the disturbing phenomenon. 🎧Listen from 1:06:23 and 2:07:20 ➡️bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) welcomes platforms doing all they can to comply with the Online Safety Act but says government should bring in stronger measures. "Safeguards need to be robust & meaningful so online pornography is treated as it is in the offline world.” itv.com/news/2025-06-2…


📣 New resource alert: Help professionals protect young people from emerging online threats. A vital new resource launches today to raise awareness about the growing issue of AI-generated child sexual abuse material (AI-CSAM), created in partnership with National Crime Agency (NCA) CEOPEducation.


Guidelines on how to deal with AI-generated child sexual abuse material have been issued to 38,000 teachers and staff across the UK by National Crime Agency (NCA) and the IWF. news.sky.com/story/teachers…


Issued this week, our new guide makes it clear AI child sexual abuse imagery “should be treated with the same level of urgency as any other incidence involving child sexual abuse material”. Read this piece from our Interim CEO Derek Ray-Hill to learn more. lbc.co.uk/opinion/views/…

Online child sexual abuse will be the next grooming crisis unless we all act now, as a society, to protect children from the dangers. We must not look back in years to come and say we did not know, warns Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) Interim CEO Derek Ray-Hill the-sun.com/news/14583000/…

Children are being groomed and coerced online in astonishing numbers, warns our Interim CEO Derek Ray-Hill. “This will be the next grooming crisis unless we all act now, as a society, to protect children from the dangers.” thesun.co.uk/news/35612385/…

🔎 All you need to know about child sexual abuse imagery generated by AI. Read and share our new resource, created in partnership Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), designed for professionals working with young people. Download today: ceopeducation.co.uk/professionals/…

