BloodyHell Posted June 7, 2023 Share Posted June 7, 2023 The original article: WSJ News Exclusive | Instagram Connects Vast Pedophile Network WWW.WSJ.COM The Meta unit’s systems for fostering communities have guided users to child-sex content; company says it is improving internal controls Free report from Variety: Instagram Algorithms Connect ‘Vast’ Network of Pedophiles Seeking Child Pornography, According to Researchers VARIETY.COM Instagram's recommendation algorithms enabled a "vast" network of pedophiles seeking illegal underage sexual content, according to a report. Quote Researchers found that Instagram enabled people to search “explicit hashtags such as #pedowhore and #preteensex” and then connected them to accounts that used the terms to advertise child-sex material for sale, according to the report. Per the Journal, test accounts set up by researchers that viewed a single such account “were immediately hit with ‘suggested for you’ recommendations of purported child-sex-content sellers and buyers, as well as accounts linking to off-platform content trading sites. Following just a handful of these recommendations was enough to flood a test account with content that sexualizes children.” Off with their heads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted June 7, 2023 Share Posted June 7, 2023 I was just about to post this one as well. It's bad. Really, really bad. It's not like things are any better at the Muskrat Bird App: WSJ News Exclusive | Twitter Missed Dozens of Known Images of Child Sexual Abuse Material, Researchers Say WWW.WSJ.COM Social-media platform has now improved its detection system, Stanford Internet Observatory was told To its credit, the WSJ investigative reporting on this issue has been Pulitzer-worthy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted June 7, 2023 Author Share Posted June 7, 2023 It’s really, really good. It would be nice if this woke the public up to the problems with social media algorithms, but I’m not holding my breath. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted June 7, 2023 Share Posted June 7, 2023 41 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: I was just about to post this one as well. It's bad. Really, really bad. It's not like things are any better at the Muskrat Bird App: WSJ News Exclusive | Twitter Missed Dozens of Known Images of Child Sexual Abuse Material, Researchers Say WWW.WSJ.COM Social-media platform has now improved its detection system, Stanford Internet Observatory was told To its credit, the WSJ investigative reporting on this issue has been Pulitzer-worthy! How is this even possible? Meta's problem is a "we don't care and are doing the bare minimum", but this is less than the bare minimum. How does Twitter not have systems in place to prevent known images from getting posted? There are hashes of all the known images that have been available to Twitter for years now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unogueen Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 moneymoneymonnnney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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