Instagram Connects Vast Pedophile Network

[Vorastra]

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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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.

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[LCBXX]

America is starting to surpass the Catholics in their protection of paedophiles.

 

[rambo919]

America is starting to surpass the Catholics in their protection of paedophiles.

Starting? These pedophile rings have been going on for many many decades.

Protected by the entrenched bureaucracy that makes use of them.

 

[Vorastra]

In theory, this same tightness of the pedophile community on Instagram should make it easier for Instagram to map out the network and take steps to combat it.

Documents previously reviewed by the Journal show that Meta has done this sort of work in the past to suppress account networks it deems harmful, such as with accounts promoting election delegitimization in the U.S. after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

They can do it against people who don't like Biden, but not to stop pedos.

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

I'm on Instagram and have never seen this before

 

[borro]

 

[Vorastra]

I'm on Instagram and have never seen this before

Good news. You're not a pedo.

 

[Sideshow Bob]

America is starting to surpass the Catholics in their protection of paedophiles.

.

Thats a really long list that could be distilled down to

1. ANC

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

Good news. You're not a pedo.

Look I like my chicks young, but I draw the line at 19
Nothing younger thank you

 

[LCBXX]

I'm on Instagram and have never seen this before

It's because you're a pervert, not a paedophile.

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

It's because you're a pervert, not a paedophile.

Agree 100%

 

[Vorastra]

Look I like my chicks young, but I draw the line at 19
Nothing younger thank you

Half your age + 7 is the rule.

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

Half your age + 7 is the rule.

I break rules is my safe word

 

[Pak Fa Fui]

I'm on Instagram and have never seen this before

Boob sizes are not indicative of age

 

[ShaunSA]

I'm sure Yanksville law enforcement is on it!