Instagram Connects Vast Pedophile Network

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Source: The Wall Street Journal.

WSJ NEWS EXCLUSIVE

Instagram Connects Vast Pedophile Network
The Meta unit’s systems for fostering communities have guided users to child-sex content; company says it is improving internal controls

By Jeff Horwitz and Katherine Blunt
June 7, 2023 7:05 am ET

Instagram, the popular social-media site owned by Meta META {snip}Platforms, helps connect and promote a vast network of accounts openly devoted to the commission and purchase of underage-sex content, according to investigations by The Wall Street Journal and researchers at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/instagram-vast-pedophile-network-4ab7189

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With blatant hashtags, a pedophile network has flourished on Instagram. The platform doesn’t merely host these activities. Its algorithms have actively promoted them.

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WSJ News Exclusive | Instagram Connects Vast Pedophile Network
The Meta unit’s systems for fostering communities have guided users to child-sex content; company says it is improving internal controls.

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[Ray Bruns]

1. I am outraged. How many of these people were dressed up in drag!

[peppertree]

12. But more than a few are GOPee lawmakers, lobbyists, and donors

I ga'ontee.

[Faux pas]

2. Kickin' with disgust!

[LittleGirl]

3. I've been mulling subscribing to Instagram

But it’s also owned by Facebook so after reading this, I’ll continue to not follow it. Yikes!

[IronLionZion]

4. Deplorable

[Javaman]

5. Well that sucks.

I follow a number of artists in there.
Let’s hope they clean up their act

[dlk]

6. Regulation for these platforms is long overdue

Too often, they promote the worst criminal behavior, and make a fortune doing it.

[crickets]

13. 👆👆

[SergeStorms]

7. No comment from Zuck?

[rubbersole]

8. Oh, no. Where is Matt Gaetz going to go for dates?

The subject isn't funny. Law enforcement should be all over this.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. How does Meta escape accountability for its promoting pedophilia?

[FakeNoose]

10. Hack their database, get names and IDs of all these pedophiles

Publicize their names. Arrest them. Get them off the street. Put Instagram out of business.

[LiberalFighter]

11. Doing such a great job.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

14. Could actually just be a bunch of bots, setting Meta up for a fall

The assumption that these must be real-life pedophiles ... is a bit presumptuous.

This could be the work of a competitor.

But at minimum provides a proof-of-concept that Meta needs to do a better job of preventing (should it be real, or someday become real).

[Hekate]

15. KnR

[DemocraticPatriot]

16. so-a lot of Republicans use instagram ??