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Over six months, we tracked the appearance of child sexual abuse material on X. We found images from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's database, which is considered one of the most highly vetted and which many tech companies block on upload. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...

nytimes.comElon Musk Has Pledged to Rid His Platform, X, of Child Sexual Abuse, but It PersistsReviews by the Canadian Center for Child Protection and The New York Times found that explicit images of children remain on the social media site owned by Elon Musk.

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& yet not even one mention that Musk is also the largest GOP donor, a huge gov contractor (billions), or request for comments from the politicians that accept his money & give him direct control over government agencies.

Thank you for writing this story. I noticed this a month ago and it fucking wrecked me. Evil evil company bsky.app/profile/thea...

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I think it bears discussion by our representatives why CSAM trader code phrases are trending on the Twitter topics page right now.

We also partnered with the Canadian Center for Child Protection to analyze Grok images produced during the nudification episode in Jan. It found images of known CSAM victims that were modified by Grok, and new CSAM that it created in response to requests from users. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...

nytimes.comElon Musk Has Pledged to Rid His Platform, X, of Child Sexual Abuse, but It Persists (Gift Article)Reviews by the Canadian Center for Child Protection and The New York Times found that explicit images of children remain on the social media site owned by Elon Musk.

When we presented our findings to child safety experts, they were shocked that we were persistently finding NCMEC images. Even though X said it reported 1.3 million images to NCMEC this year, some were clearly slipping through — X did not answer specific questions about how it blocks abuse material.

We spoke to several women, now adults, after finding images of their abuse on X. One said the abuse was like a rock tossed into a pond, and the spread of the images are ripples that continue to disrupt her life. Here is how another woman described X's role:

This reporting was difficult in many ways. It is a technical challenge. It is hard to get buy-in for a story about a subject that is so horrific many people would prefer to not examine it. It is also emotionally difficult. Throughout it all, @mhkeller.bsky.social was a steadfast reporting partner.