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CSAM

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104 articles decelerating

CSAM has appeared in 104 articles since 2021-01. Coverage peaked in 2024Q1 with 9 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Apple, iCloud, Twitter, Bluesky.

Articles
104
mentions
Velocity
-62.5%
growth rate
Acceleration
-7.625
velocity change
Sources
36
publications
The Plaintiff
On January 17, Musk sued OpenAI for $134 billion over abandoned principles. The same day, the EPA ruled xAI broke federal law with unpermitted gas turbines in M...

Coverage Timeline

2026-01-30
Bloomberg 3 related

Amazon reported hundreds of thousands of pieces of potential CSAM in AI training data to NCMEC in 2025; child safety officials say Amazon didn't give the source

2026-01-29
Bloomberg 3 related

Amazon reported hundreds of thousands of pieces of potential CSAM in AI training data to NCMEC in 2025; child safety officials say Amazon didn't give the source

The tech giant reported hundreds of thousands of cases of suspected child sexual abuse material, but won't say where it came from

2026-01-11
The Guardian 51 related

Grok says image generation and editing are now limited to paid subscribers, after outcry over its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery

I suppose a subscription CSAM app might be the way MECHAHITLER manages to make money …Matthew Broersma /Silicon UK:EU Extends X Retention Order Over Sexualised ImagesThe Guardian:The UK government say...

2026-01-04
Futurism 24 related

On top of nonconsensual porn images, X users seem to be using Grok to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed

and critics say it's harassment by AI Kevin Raposo / KnowTechie : Grok chatbot's safety fails, releases explicit images of minors Selin Hacialioglu / Türkiye Today : Pressure grows in Türkiye as Grok ...

2026-01-03
TechCrunch 16 related

India orders X to stop Grok from generating obscene content, giving it 72 hours to submit an action-taken report or risk losing its “safe harbor” protections

And what happened to Minister Patrick O'Donovan's plans to protect children on the internet, now X dot com is generating actual CSAM of real children?  —  Is he only interested in surveillance? [embed...

2025-05-11
New York Times

Court filing: internal docs show Pornhub had 706,000 videos in May 2020 flagged for child rape or other problems, often not removed until flagged 16+ times

What goes through the minds of people working at porn companies profiting from videos of children being raped? Bluesky: @gateklons and @elisethomas . Forums: r/technology Bluesky: @gateklons : Sickeni...

2025-04-06
Business Insider

Leaked docs show Outlier and Scale AI use freelancers to write prompts about suicide, abuse, and terrorism to stress-test AI, urging creativity but banning CSAM

Effie Webb / Business Insider : Bluesky: @theopriestley.com and @hypervisible Bluesky: Theo / @theopriestley.com : Check LinkedIn and other job boards, they're awash with these types of freelance gig...

2025-02-08
BBC 7 related

An Adalytics report shows how ad systems run by Google, Amazon, Microsoft and others inadvertently placed ads on a website that hosts CSAM

Thomas Germain / BBC :

2024-11-26
Platformer

A look at Bluesky's moderation efforts as its growth surges; Bluesky plans to quadruple the size of its contract workforce of content moderators from 25 to 100

www.platformer.news/bluesky- grow... Alex Stamos / @stamos.org : 1) Many underestimate the investment the PRC has put into influencing the US social media sphere.  —  2) The destruction of Trust and S...

2024-09-17
Krebs on Security 4 related

A look at the activity of some members of The Com, an online community linked to the Scattered Spider hacking group, and their involvement in extortion groups

which corresponds to the screen name “@Holy” — and found the same account was used across a number of cybercrime channels that are entirely focused on extorting young people into harming themselves or...

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Quarterly Coverage

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Narrative

CSAM has appeared in 123 Techmeme articles since August 2021. The biggest stories include French prosecutors: Pavel Durov's arrest is part of a probe “against person unnamed” into... and Apple details its CSAM detection system, says it expects to set a match threshold of 30.... Frequently covered alongside Apple, iCloud, Meta, Twitter, and NCMEC. Coverage has shifted toward regulation, developer themes and away from enterprise, consumer.

Key Moments

2024Q2enterprise -27pts; developer -9pts; consumer +20pts
2024Q3enterprise +29pts; safety +14pts; developer +14pts
2024Q4enterprise -29pts; safety -14pts; developer -14pts

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