The Wall Street Journal: Instagram Connects Vast Pedophile Network (June 7, 2023)

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The Wall Street Journal
Instagram Connects Vast Pedophile Network
The Meta unit’s systems for fostering communities have guided users to child-sex content
By Jeff Horwitz and Katherine BluntFollow
Published June 7, 2023 7:05 AM

Excerpt:

Instagram, the popular social-media site owned by Meta 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.

Pedophiles have long used the internet, but unlike the forums and file-transfer services that cater to people who have interest in illicit content, Instagram doesn’t merely host these activities. Its algorithms promote them. 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.

Though out of sight for most on the platform, the sexualized accounts on Instagram are brazen about their interest. The researchers found that Instagram enabled people to search explicit hashtags such as #pedowhore and #preteensex and connected them to accounts that used the terms to advertise child-sex material for sale. Such accounts often claim to be run by the children themselves and use overtly sexual handles incorporating words such as “little slut for you.”

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

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