Senators Marsha Blackburn and Richard Blumenthal have issued urgent letters to digital advertising platforms like Amazon and Google following a report linking their technologies to ads placed on a site distributing child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The report underscores severe oversight failures, prompting the Senators to express deep concern over Amazon's monetization of imgbb.com, a site identified by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children since 2021. They demand immediate action and responses from ad verification firms and industry bodies to address the issue and protect children from exploitation.
The Senators also reached out to ad verification firms DoubleVerify and Integral Ad Science, as well as industry standards bodies Media Rating Council and Trustworthy Accountability Group, demanding answers and immediate action.
"We write to express our profound concern that Amazon's technology has been used to monetize websites that have been known to host child sexual abuse material (CSAM)"
The dissemination of CSAM is a heinous crime that inflicts irreparable harm on its victims. When digital advertising technologies place advertisements on websites that are known to host such activity, they have in effect created a funding stream that perpetuates criminal operations.
Senators Blackburn and Blumenthal expressed "profound concern" that Amazon's advertising technology had been used to monetize imgbb.com, a website identified by NCMEC as hosting CSAM since at least 2021.
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