VG has known about the operation since January and followed it closely, partly by monitoring traffic on the dark web and partly by obtaining information from police, judicial authorities and other sources around the world.

When VG's computer expert, Einar Otto Stangvik, began investigating the website and its Nordic members in the autumn of 2016, we had no idea he would uncover a secret police operation. Only now can we tell the story of how Task Force Argos, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the police in Canada and Europe worked to unmask the leaders of the world’s largest online community of child sexual abusers.

From the start, Operation Artemis had a clear objective: identifying victims and their abusers. In the United States, a mother weeps when she hears that VG has found that pictures of her daughter being sexually abused were shared by members, while the police operated the site.

– My daughter should not be used as bait.

The operation involved several countries including Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Australia and New Zealand. It also included agencies such as Europol in Belgium and Interpol's Child Exploitation Unit based in England.

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