distressing

This article contains detail that some may find distressing.

Warning: This story contains distressing details relating to extreme child abuse and suicide.

Over the past few months the BBC has been exploring a dark, hidden world – a world where the very worst, most horrifying, distressing, and in many cases, illegal online content ends up.

In 2021, McFadden himself branded the "terrible and distressing" riots in the US Capitol building that year the "culmination of the Trump presidency".

That's what makes it so distressing — and so dangerous.