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Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman didn’t recognize the man who banged on her door. Terrified, she called 911. She had reason to fear.

Nevada businessman Robert Beadles whipped up outrage against the local voting registrar. She says she quit in fear for her family’s safety.

Election workers in Arizona’s most fiercely contested county faced more than 100 violent threats and intimidating communications in the run-up to Tuesday’s midterms, most of them based on election conspiracy theories promoted by former President Donald Trump and his allies.

A new crop of lawsuits accuses websites of profiting from abusive sexual content – from child porn images and rape videos to nonconsensual pornography.

OnlyFans makes amateur porn creators rich. It has also faced 100-plus complaints of nonconsensual porn–including a woman who says her rape was filmed and sold.

Three U.S. lawmakers and two in Britain called for tougher safeguards against online sexual exploitation after a Reuters investigation this week identified more than 140 police complaints of nonconsensual pornography on OnlyFans, the popular adults-only website.

OnlyFans says it’s strictly adults-only. But Reuters found numerous complaints in police and court files of explicit child content hosted on the site.

Many top porn stars on OnlyFans hire ‘chatters’ to impersonate them online. These impostors have boosted the site's growth – but some subscribers call it fraud.

A New York man who posted a sex video of a 16-year-old girl on the adults-only website OnlyFans pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of distributing child pornography.

OnlyFans, a porn-heavy website, says it has prospered by building a

OnlyFans, a porn-heavy website, says it has prospered by building a

OnlyFans gives women the chance to earn money by making porn. Sex traffickers also use the platform to abuse and exploit them, say police and prosecutors.

Within a day of his Dec. 16 report to authorities, all of the accounts had been removed from the platform, the investigator said.

An experienced child exploitation investigator told Reuters he reported 26 accounts on the popular adults-only website OnlyFans to authorities, saying they appeared to contain sexual content featuring underage teen girls.

Reuters traces OnlyFans' journey from an obscure, porn-free site to an adults-only social media phenomenon turbocharged by erotic performers and influencers.

The credit-card companies knew people were using their networks to pay for illegal content since at least 2021, the whistleblower said.

As federal judges rule against the Trump administration in dozens of politically charged cases, the families of at least 11 of the jurists have been targeted with threats and harassment. The intimidation campaign has strained judges and their relatives – and legal scholars fear it could have a chilling effect on the judiciary.

The company's sole shareholder is Leonid Radvinsky, a Ukrainian American whose location could not be confirmed. He bought OnlyFans in 2018 and has paid himself at least $1 billion in dividends over the past three years, British filings showed.

The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of U.S. political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest.

A Reuters investigation documents at least 470 acts of retribution under Trump’s leadership.