Grassley Releases New and Disturbing Information on Online Child Exploitation, Presses …

BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is opening a congressional inquiry into eight major tech companies for allegedly failing to sufficiently report online child sexual exploitation, frustrating law enforcement investigations into online child abuse. Additionally, Grassley is releasing new information from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) – provided to Congress in response to Grassley’s oversight – which details the eight companies’ reporting deficiencies, a list of “poor reporting” companies and data related to generative AI. Meta, Amazon AI Services, TikTok, Snapchat, Discord, X.AI, Grindr and Roblox in 2025 submitted over 17 million reports of suspected online child exploitation. According to NCMEC, these eight companies collectively accounted for 81% of the reports received through NCMEC’s CyberTipline in 2025. All electronic service providers (ESPs) are required by law to report suspected cases of online child sexual exploitation to NCMEC’s CyberTipline. NCMEC found significant issues with the companies’ reporting processes in 2025, with some companies failing to provide essential location data on users and suspects, failing to disclose child sex abuse material (CSAM) in AI training data and failing to report instances of sadistic online exploitation targeting children, among others. However, NCMEC indicated
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