Instagram Connects Vast Pedophile Network [View all]
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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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.