Wed Jun 7, 2023 – 5:47 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Instagram is facilitating large pedophile and child-trafficking networks, according to a bombshell report by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published June 7.
Researchers from Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst together with the WSJ investigated pedophile activities on Instagram and found that “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,” the WSJ report states.
Instagram allows users to search for hashtags used by pedophiles to connect with accounts that advertise and sell child-sex material, including images, videos, and in-person “meetings.”
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Alex Stamos, who was Meta’s (Instagram’s parent company) chief security officer until 2018 and is now the director of the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), noted, “That a team of three academics with limited access could find such a huge network should set off alarms at Meta.”
“I hope the company reinvests in human investigators,” Stamos added.
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