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Researchers warn of coordinated network to amplify child sexual abuse content on X
At least 150 accounts shared “millions” of posts on X over a four-day period in July that encouraged users to buy child exploitation materials, an investigation has found.
Many of the shared posts included links to online Telegram or Discord chat spaces, dating websites, or sites selling folders of child sex abuse content. One of the amplified pages linked to an active Bitcoin wallet address that had amassed $660 (€573) over 23 transactions, which the report said “potentially confirm[s] that the operation is reaching people who are buying access to the content”. “Weve invested in advanced technology and tools to stop bad actors from distributing, searching for, or engaging with exploitative content across all media formats on X,” the company said in June.
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