Instagram's algorithms connect and promote a "vast network" of pedophiles interested in "underage sex content," a bombshell new report found.
The Meta-owned social media company's algorithms promote illicit content to accounts "openly devoted to the commission and purchase" of the material, according to investigations by the Wall Street Journal and researchers at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
"Instagram connects pedophiles and guides them to content sellers via recommendation systems that excel at linking those who share niche interests," the WSJ and academic researchers found.
"Though out of sight for most on the platform, the sexualized accounts on Instagram are brazen about their interest," the report says.
