Child porn moves from dark web to social media


PETALING JAYA: As child sex abuse content proliferates on the Internet, it’s moving from the confines of the dark web to mainstream platforms.

A Unicef report in 2022 concluded that children mainly experienced online child sexual exploitation and abuse on major social media platforms, with the most common being WhatsApp, Facebook and Facebook Messenger, WeChat and Telegram.

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