Instagram Connects Vast Pedophile Network
Source: The Wall Street Journal.
WSJ NEWS EXCLUSIVE
Instagram Connects Vast Pedophile Network
The Meta units 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
With blatant hashtags, a pedophile network has flourished on Instagram. The platform doesnt merely host these activities. Its algorithms have actively promoted them.
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WSJ News Exclusive | Instagram Connects Vast Pedophile Network
The Meta units systems for fostering communities have guided users to child-sex content; company says it is improving internal controls.
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Ray Bruns
(4,086 posts)peppertree
(21,614 posts)I ga'ontee.
Faux pas
(14,657 posts)LittleGirl
(8,282 posts)But its also owned by Facebook so after reading this, Ill continue to not follow it. Yikes!
IronLionZion
(45,403 posts)Javaman
(62,507 posts)I follow a number of artists in there.
Lets hope they clean up their act
dlk
(11,537 posts)Too often, they promote the worst criminal behavior, and make a fortune doing it.
SergeStorms
(19,190 posts)rubbersole
(6,683 posts)The subject isn't funny. Law enforcement should be all over this.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,309 posts)FakeNoose
(32,610 posts)Publicize their names. Arrest them. Get them off the street. Put Instagram out of business.
LiberalFighter
(50,825 posts)Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)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).