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Instagram algorithm boosts ‘vast pedophile network,' bombshell report claims
The WSJ revealed sexualized accounts Instagram are 'brazen'

By Brianna Herlihy | Fox News


Instagram's algorithms connect and promote a "vast network" of pedophiles interested in "underage sex content," a bombshell new report found.

The Meta-owned social media company's algorithms promote illicit content to accounts "openly devoted to the commission and purchase" of the material, according to investigations by the Wall Street Journal and researchers at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

"Instagram connects pedophiles and guides them to content sellers via recommendation systems that excel at linking those who share niche interests," the WSJ and academic researchers found.

"Though out of sight for most on the platform, the sexualized accounts on Instagram are brazen about their interest," the report says.

The researchers reportedly 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," the report claims.

According to the WSJ, Instagram accounts offering to sell illicit sex material generally do not publish it openly, instead posting "menus" of content.

Researchers at the Stanford Internet Observatory found that certain accounts invite buyers to commission specific acts, WSJ reported. Some menus include prices for videos of children harming themselves and "imagery of the minor performing sexual acts with animals." At the right price, children are available for in-person "meet ups," the researchers found.

The promotion of underage-sex content violates Meta's own rules, in addition to being illegal under federal law.

In response to questions from WSJ, Meta "acknowledged problems within its enforcement operations and said it has set up an internal task force to address the issues raised." "Child exploitation is a horrific crime," the company told the Journal, adding, "We’re continuously investigating ways to actively defend against this behavior."

Meta said it has in the past two years taken down 27 pedophile networks and is planning more removals, according to the report.

Since receiving queries from the newspaper, the platform said it has blocked "thousands of hashtags that sexualize children, some with millions of posts, and restricted its systems from recommending users search for terms known to be associated with sex abuse."

It said it is also working on preventing its systems from recommending that potentially pedophilic adults connect with one another or interact with one another’s content, the report states.


https://www.foxnews.com/politics/in...edophile-network-bombshell-report-claims


For over ten years now... in every inquiry, investigation or hearing... Zuckerberg just cries "it's not us, it's the algorithms". How long will we allow that lie to be a viable excuse??

Just another group to be asked to embrace by the "woke".

The woke need to open their damn eyes.

Y’all can focus on weeding out the pedophile boogie men while the left cuts out the cancer. I have no idea if instagram is full of pedos or not. But if I was going to go after pedos, my first move would be to go after the pedos in the ranks of MAGA. Matt Gaetz comes to mind.

That would be the first move? Just the GOP pedos?

Well it seems to me the greatest mass pedo ring is in their ranks. Almost every REAL case you hear about is a GOPer politician.

Sometimes you make up the craziest BS. But then comparing trans people and the gay community to pedophiles isn't anything new. Nobody on the left or right supports pedophilia. Suggesting otherwise just goes to show how demented the thoughts of some can be.

Sick af.

All of them. Peen suggested the left will be supporting that people accept pedophiles. Don't try to divert the attention away from that.