Subject: Instagram and Meta knew
Awhile back we were talking about how advertisers were bailing on X because Reasons (usually lame ones meant to cover over their disdain of Elon Musk). I had mentioned that Instagram was the true home of child predation...and what do you know.

Not only was I right, but Instagram and parent company Meta knew about it. And did...nothing.

https://hotair.com/david-strom...

Meta/Facebook/Instagram has knowingly been facilitating child predators purchasing sexualized content from children and they decided to do nothing to stop it.

After all, there is real money to be made selling sexualized images to kids. Money for the kids, their moms, and for Instagram.

More:
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-...

Meta Platforms META 0.08%increase; green up pointing triangle safety staff warned last year that new paid subscription tools on Facebook and Instagram were being misused by adults seeking to profit from exploiting their own children.

Two teams inside Meta raised alarms in internal reports, after finding that hundreds of what the company calls “parent-managed minor accounts” were using the subscription feature to sell exclusive content not available to nonpaying followers. The content, often featuring young girls in bikinis and leotards, was sold to an audience that was overwhelmingly male and often overt about sexual interest in the children in comments on posts or when they communicated with the parents, according to people familiar with the investigations, which determined that the payments feature was launched without basic child-safety protections.

But what did Meta do about it?

Meta didn’t pursue those proposals, the people said, and instead chose to build an automated system to prevent suspected pedophiles from being given the option to subscribe to parent-run accounts. The technology didn’t always work, and the subscription ban could be evaded by setting up a new account.

While it was still building the automated system, Meta expanded the subscriptions program as well as the tipping feature, called “gifts,” to new markets. A Wall Street Journal examination also found instances of misuse involving the gifts tool.

Eww. Instead of shutting this down or being aggressive at policing it...they kind of went the other direction.

Nothing will come of this since the advertiser boycott of X is a political reaction to Musk's takeover and subsequent revelation of widespread censorship. You won't see Disney, for example, reduce its ad buys on Insta.