The Careless Machine: Exposing Instagram's Darkest Secret
麻豆社 Eye has found Instagram in India is running paid ads promoting child sex abuse material. The ads use terms including 鈥渞ape鈥� and 鈥渃hild video鈥� and link to content on the messaging app Telegram.
A 麻豆社 Eye investigation has found that Instagram in India is running ads promoting child sexual abuse material 鈥� and making money from these ads. Some of the ads feature children who appear to be as young as seven or eight and link out to content on the messaging app Telegram. Reporter Divya Arya tracks down a former Meta executive-turned-whistleblower to find out how Instagram鈥檚 moderation system has failed to detect these ads 鈥� and, still searching for answers, confronts the head of Meta in India.
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