- Instagram promotes a vast network of accounts dedicated to underage-sex content.
- Pedophiles are linked to content sellers via recommendation systems.
- Accounts advertise child-sex material for sale, including videos of children harming themselves and performing sexual acts with animals.
- Meta acknowledges problems and has set up an internal task force to address the issue.
- Instagram is popular with teens, but researchers found similar activity on smaller social platforms.
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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