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Guest Post by Alex Berenson
Instagram has a problem with child sexual abuse.
Instagram – and its parent company, Meta Platforms, which also owns Facebook – do not seem to care.
The Wall Street Journal ran a devastating piece today on child pornography and rape networks that Instagram does not merely tolerate but facilitates.
The piece is filled with ugly revelations from top to bottom. Near its end the reporters report âInstagramâs [automated] suggestions were helping to rebuild [a pedophile] network that the platformâs own safety staff was in the middle of trying to dismantle.â
Even worse, they reveal that Instagram would allow users to see posts it knew might be harmful or illegal, after a short warning:
Continue reading “On Section 230 and Instagram’s child pornography problem”
A comprehensive investigation by the Wall Street Journal and the Stanford Internet Observatory reveals that Meta-owned Instagram has been home to an organized and massive network of pedophiles.
But what separates this case from most is that Instagram’s own algorithms were promoting pedophile content to other pedophiles, while the pedos themselves used coded emojis, such as a picture of a map, or a slice of cheese pizza.
Instagram connects pedophiles and guides them to content sellers via recommendation systems that excel at linking those who share niche interests, the Journal and the academic researchers found.
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The pedophilic accounts on Instagram mix brazenness with superficial efforts to veil their activity, researchers found. Certain emojis function as a kind of code, such as an image of a mapâshorthand for âminor-attracted personââor one of âcheese pizza,â which shares its initials with âchild pornography,â according to Levine of UMass. Many declare themselves âlovers of the little things in life.â -WSJ
According to the researchers, Instagram allowed pedophiles to search for content with explicit hashtags such as #pedowhore and #preteensex, which were then used to connect them to accounts that advertise child-sex material for sale from users going under names such as “little slut for you.”
Continue reading “Cheese Pizza? Meta’s Instagram Facilitated Massive Pedophile Network”