What if the worst thing that ever happened to you plays out countless times on anonymous computer screens all over the world? Every day, tens of millions of images of child sexual abuse circulate on global online platforms. The proliferation of these images is getting worse as AI technology and deep fakes create an ever-expanding epidemic of online child sex exploitation. The children depicted in those criminal images are real. Many are now adults held hostage by these disturbing images despite available technology like Canada's Project Arachnid, which detects these images and sends out removal notices. Platforms often resist action, citing privacy laws. But in response, survivors and a group of motivated supporters are banding together across the globe to protect kids. Confronting their own trauma, they are speaking out, advocating for change internationally, and demanding stronger laws that hold tech giants to account.

From TVO Podcasts, the Investigative Journalism Bureau, The Toronto Star, and Piz Gloria Productions, this six-part podcast series follows the survivors' long-shot fight against the most powerful companies in the world to end a massive, global trade in child sex abuse imagery.

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What if your worst nightmare played on repeat, over and over on anonymous computer screens all over the world. That's a daily reality for adult survivors of childhood abuse like Paul and Sage and many others like them. These horrific images of them as kids continue to hold them hostage. But they're fighting back and speaking out publicly for the first time. They team up with a feisty group of global sentinels to take on some of the most powerful tech companies in the world to combat the spread of the illegal CSAM material.

From TVO Podcasts, the Investigative Journalism Bureau, The Toronto Star, and Piz Gloria Productions, this six-part podcast series follows the survivors' long-shot fight against the most powerful companies in the world to end a massive, global trade in child sex abuse imagery.

Ep 1: Speaking Out

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Sage is visited by a detective who spreads out his visual evidence. She is confronted with the reality of the global trade in the illegal images of her childhood abuse. She is determined to fight back and take on the ongoing battle to remove them. The podcast producers track down the unlikely team of a creative software engineer and a conscientious lawyer who invented photo DNA. The technology identifies and removes known images of child exploitation from the internet. So if there's a solution that's been around for decades, why aren't we using it?

From TVO Podcasts, the Investigative Journalism Bureau, The Toronto Star, and Piz Gloria Productions, this six-part podcast series follows the survivors' long-shot fight against the most powerful companies in the world to end a massive, global trade in child sex abuse imagery.

Ep 2: The Solution

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