Child Sexual Abuse Material Persists on X

mplanchard 47 points 60 comments September 11, 2026
www.nytimes.com · View on Hacker News

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mplanchard

https://archive.is/pdKjA

mplanchard

The newsworthy thing here, IMO, is that they don’t even seem to be checking images against the NCMEC database > The U.S. national center shares digital fingerprints with major technology companies so they can scan and remove the imagery. The center’s list is used by Google and Meta, among others. About a third of the images found by The Times were from that list.

PeterStuer

I thought all maps moved to bluesky?

cyanydeez

Surely, X should be shut down by some act of god.

2OEH8eoCRo0

Twitter/X should be held liable.

mulemisterX

The only conclusion I can come to at this point is that it's a honeypot.

NDlurker

Off topic, but gore should be treated the same way legally

OroPla

Can someone explain why the goal is only to remove the images and not go after whoever posted them? You'd think the pool of posters would eventually shrink to zero.

gamblor956

Not surprising. Musk displayed uncommonly detailed knowledge of the Southeast Asian child sex trade in the aftermath of the Thai Cave Crisis. It's not a big stretch to allowing CSAM on his own social media network.

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