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Child sex abuse victim begs Elon Musk to remove links to her images


BBC investigation finds US victim's images are traded globally by an operator based in Indonesia.

Last year the US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), received more than 20 million mandatory reports from tech companies about incidents of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) - illegal images and videos on their platforms. "The Telegram account was, for lack of a better term, a taster pack - essentially a collage of the material he had available of all the different victims," explained Lloyd Richardson, the CCCP's director of technology. The platform told us it works "closely with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and supports law enforcement efforts to prosecute these heinous crimes".

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