Meta is setting up a taskforce after Instagram was found to guide users to child-sex context
Meta has set up a taskforce to counter child exploitation after a news report said Instagram helped promote networks of accounts trading child-sex content.
The photo and video sharing app owned by Mark Zuckerberg's Meta allowed pedophiles to operate accounts that were openly sharing sexual content of minors,An investigation by the newspaper and researchers at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst found that the algorithms underlyinghelped to spread the material while guiding users to them.
Users were able to use Instagram to search for explicit terms through hashtags that grouped content with the same label, The Journal reported. Some hashtags found included"#pedowhore" and"#preteensex," per the report. Meta acknowledged that it had problems in cracking down on such content in response to the findings, claiming that 27 pedophile networks had been removed in the past two years. The company confirmed that it had set up an internal task force to tackle the issues., with Instagram's challenges removing child-sex material being just the latest case of that.
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