Does Instagram facilitate the sale of child pornographic content? The Meta subsidiary was pinned by a report from the University of Stanford and the Wall Street Journal on this subject!
In this report, researchers from the Cyber Policy Center of the prestigious University of Silicon Valley, manage to demonstrate that Instagram is the main platform used by pedophile networks to promote and sell content showing sexual abuses on minors.
“Large networks of accounts, which give the appearance of being operated by minors, openly promote the sale of childhood content,” said the University of Stanford and the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday June 7.
Instagram, second most used network in Tunisia
These revelations prove to be disturbing when we know that Instagram claims 2.3 billion users worldwide, 8% of whom are children aged between 13 and 17 years.
By ricochet, we are entitled to worry in Tunisia, where Instagram is the second most used social network after Facebook, which has 8.6 million Tunisian users.
There are also 3,375,200 Instagram users (in May 2023), 8.6% of whom are children aged between 13 and 17 years and 1,074,700 are between 18 and 24 years old (31.8%).
Too easy for pedophiles
Features such as content recommendation algorithms and messaging that helps sellers get in touch with buyers, are operated by instagram pedophiles the most important platform for these networks.
The Wall Street Journal goes further by revealing that it is enough for a simple search with simple keywords to lead to accounts that use these terms to advertise content showing sexual abuses on minors.
An approach deemed easy by the newspaper … too easy even for pedophiles who do not need to show a lot of ingenuity to get in touch with buyers.
In a statement, Meta acknowledged that there were problems in its security services and said it had created a “working group” to solve the problem.
These flaws revealed in broad daylight have put the giant of social networks in embarrassment after the publication of this report.
