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INSTAGRAM CONNECTS VAST PEDOPHILE NETWORK


THE META UNIT’S SYSTEMS FOR FOSTERING COMMUNITIES HAVE GUIDED USERS TO CHILD-SEX
CONTENT; COMPANY SAYS IT IS IMPROVING INTERNAL CONTROLS


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By Jeff Horwitz

and Katherine Blunt

June 7, 2023 7:05 am ET
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Instagram, the popular social-media site owned by

Meta META 1.27%increase; green up pointing triangle
Platforms, helps connect and promote a vast network of accounts openly devoted
to the commission and purchase of underage-sex content, according to
investigations by The Wall Street Journal and researchers at Stanford University
and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.



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