Instagram Connects Vast Pedophile Network [View all]

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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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