A new report has found that Instagram and Facebook are promoting pedophile accounts and that internal teams aren't keeping the accounts at bay. Meta has a problem with pedophiles on its platforms, as a new report from The Wall Street Journal has found instances where the algorithms powering the company's platforms have actually promoted pedophile accounts. 2VIEW GALLERY - 2 IMAGESIt was back in June that the WSJ and Stanford University worked together to find an underground pedophile network on Instagram. The WSJ report found there are still entire Facebook groups that are dedicated to sharing content that sexualizes children, pedophile-related hashtags are abundant, and many other Facebook groups that are currently celebrating incest and sex with children. Additionally, the Canadian Centre For Child Protection discovered several Instagram accounts that had up to 10 million followers livestreaming videos of children being sexually abused.

Source: Wall Street Journal December 04, 2023 15:28 UTC