Online Sextortion: Artificial Intelligence Is Being Used to Blackmail Teens With Fake Nudes
The FBI is warning families about the rise of online “sextortion,” as criminal rings are beginning to use AI to blackmail teenage victims.
The FBI is warning families about the rise of online “sextortion,” as criminal rings are beginning to use AI to blackmail teenage victims.
A Texas man has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting toddlers in a mall bathroom and posting videos online.
Amazon has come under fire for enabling perverts by selling hidden cameras disguised as mundane objects, a lawsuit complains.
A recent report has uncovered a concerning trend in the development of artificial intelligence image generators, revealing the use of explicit photos of children in their training datasets.
An Arkansas middle school teacher allegedly exchanged explicit photos with a 14-year-old student to “gratify her sexual desires.”
The Democrat ex-mayor of College Park, Maryland, Patrick Wojahn, was sentenced to 30 years in prison Monday over possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material.
Slade Sohmer, the former editor for the the left-wing news site The Recount, has been arrested and charged for possessing and distributing child pornography.
A child psychiatrist in Charlotte, North Carolina, used artificial intelligence (AI) to make child porn, and he is now facing the consequences.
A New Jersey school janitor who made headlines for allegedly contaminating food with bodily fluid now faces child pornography charges.
A New Jersey high school is grappling with the fallout from a scandal involving AI-generated explicit images of female students circulated by their male peers. It is just the latest example of the disastrous consequences of unrestrained AI on American culture.
Pedophiles are using AI to generate “astoundingly realistic” child sexual abuse images that many people may find “indistinguishable” from real pictures, an online safety group has warned.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement says a former middle school teacher in Winter Garden has been arrested for allegedly possessing child pornography.
Dr. Shane Murnan, who performs drag as Shantel Mandalay, was named the new principal of John Glenn Elementary in Oklahoma.
In an unprecedented move, the attorneys general from all 50 states and four territories have sent a collective letter to Congress, calling for the establishment of an expert commission to address the exploitation of children through AI-generated child pornography.
Internal emails from internet porn giant Pornhub — and parent company MindGeek — revealed in a legal discovery show the executive team discussing the company’s shockingly weak policy on reviewing questionable videos, which was to only review a video if it had over 15 flags for criminal content. Such videos include revenge porn, underage girls, and even child rape.
A 41-year-old former aide to former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) is accused of paying to engage in a sex act with a little girl.
Officials charged a Chicago private school teacher with attempted production of child pornography once he was caught with a teenage boy in Florida on June 29.
A Chicago policeman, previously charged with sexually abusing a minor, is facing more charges in a case involving several victims.
Lindsay Groves, a daycare worker accused of supplying Stacie Laughton — a transgender Democrat former lawmaker in New Hampshire — with child porn, is scheduled for release from jail before trial.
A federal judge sentenced a Honduran man who later became a naturalized U.S. citizen to serve more than ten years in prison following his guilty plea on charges related to the possession of child pornography and conspiracy to commit human smuggling. Border Patrol agents arrested the man and an alleged conspirator in April 2021 near the U.S.-Canada border in Burke, New York, after finding him with a group of Vietnamese migrants who had crossed the border illegally.
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers interdicted a human smuggling attempt near Bracketville and found a migrant with child pornography on his cell phone. This is the second bust in as many days of migrants illegally in the United States being busted by Texas troopers with child porn on their cell phones.
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers arrested a Mexican national for allegedly smuggling a group of migrants across the border in the Rio Grande Valley Sector. The agents later reported finding child pornography in his cell phone. He now faces multiple criminal charges in a Texas court.
A recent study by Stanford’s Internet Observatory has unveiled a disturbing prevalence of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), otherwise known as child pornography, on Mastodon. The decentralized social media platform has been a popular destination for leftists fleeing from Twitter since Elon Musk purchased the platform.
A transgender Democrat former New Hampshire state lawmaker allegedly conspired with his ex-girlfriend to obtain sexually explicit images of children.
Following reports of child exploitation and grooming across the service, Discord, the widely-used gaming chat platform, has announced sweeping changes to its policies. The new rules include a ban on teen dating and AI-generated child sexual abuse material.
The BBC said Sunday that it has suspended an unnamed male presenter who is alleged to have paid a teenager for sexually explicit photos.
University of Florida backup quarterback Jalen Kitna reached a plea agreement for charges related to child pornography.
“Uncensored” AI chatbots being used by pedophiles to generate child pornography and graphic sexual abuse fantasies. The FBI warns of a spike in internet predators using open-source AI tech to create “sexually-themed images that appear true-to-life.”
In the wake of growing concerns over child exploitation on the popular gaming chat platform Discord, CEO Jason Citron has voiced his alarm and commitment to tackling the issue. Discord has long been recognized as a troubling vector for groomers and sexual deviants to reach children and teens.
A teacher in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, who allegedly targeted teenage girls by setting up fake profiles to lure them into sending naked photos is now facing charges.
Facebook (now known as Meta) has pledged to intensify its efforts to combat the promotion of pedophilia content on its Instagram platform. This commitment comes in the wake of a disturbing report that revealed Instagram’s algorithm was aiding the spread of child pornography and pedophilia accounts.
Instagram, the globally popular social media platform owned by Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook (now known as Meta), has failed to stop the connection and promotion of a vast network of accounts involved in the creation and purchase of child pornography, according to recent investigations by researchers at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Child Pornography dealers on Instagram are so brazen that they offer a “menu” of services directly on Zuckerberg’s platform.
An illegal alien from China has been indicted after crossing the United States-Mexico border allegedly with child pornography on his cellphone, according to federal prosecutors.
Socialist Spain is leading the way in attempts to ban private messaging technology in the European Union, a leaked survey revealed.
Victims of a child pornography ring in Michigan were allegedly fed THC-laced gummies by suspects so that they could not resist, according to Genesee County Sheriff Christopher Swanson.
A former MP serving in a former Labour Party government has been jailed after being found with nearly 1,500 images of child porn.
A study by the Internet Watch Foundation found that online predators are targeting children’s webcams, and that since 2019, there has been a tenfold increase in sexual abuse imagery created via webcams and other recording devices worldwide.
Officials with the Plainview, Texas, Independent School District announced they are working with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies regarding the alleged sexual assault of a six-year-old girl in an elementary school. An IT staff member reportedly discovered a video of the attack on a school iPad.
A journalist arrested on charges of child pornography was reportedly aware of the age of a teenager with whom he was communicating.
The former marketing director of a Planned Parenthood in Connecticut committed suicide days after police raided his apartment as part of a child pornography investigation.