Thread by @CollectiveShout

Hi @mosseri, we have questions for you:

Why haven’t you stopped the sexualisation, harassment and exploitation of girls by predatory men on @Instagram? Facebook says there’s ‘no place’ for child exploitation on its platforms - why do we see it DAILY? /1

https://twitter.com/mosseri/status/1438943523588300803

For the past 2 years we have documented widespread predatory activity on Instagram. We have seen some changes to Instagram’s policies + new tools to “keep teens safe”. But girls - teen and even pre teen - are not safe. 2/

We continue to document deeply disturbing activity, happening in plain sight on Instagram:
paedophile forums posing as Instagram accounts (“shout out” pages), scraping content from girls’ personal pages + sharing them with thousands of men.

Posts are tagged with terms which cater to paedophilic fantasy and help predators find more girls to connect with. 3/

We have shown how “child modelling” is not about modelling but about predators: the end result of pics of girls in underwear, bikinis + dance wear on Instagram is men broadcasting sex abuse fantasies involving the girls, 4/

masturbating to the images, and even filming these sex acts (in so-called “cum tributes”) to share online.

Read more in our blog: collectiveshout.org/mainstreaming_… 5/

In 2019 we found names of 550 girls aged 0-15yo on an open online paedophile forum. Men used the forum to share images +vids of the girls + discuss child sex abuse acts they wanted to carry out on them.

Of a sample, we found that ALL were linked to Instagram accounts. 6/

A girl featured on the paedophile forum -a 1 YR OLD -had her own Insta page. A predator commented to another who expressed sexual interest in the TODDLER, saying she was ‘too young’. He replied, ‘I’ll pass her over to you in 7 ys time then. Maybe a little shop soiled though’ 7/

Many of the girls are still on Instagram today, being connected to more predators. Another toddler featured on the forum, now 4, has an Instagram following of 66.5k. According to her bio, she’s a ‘fashion model’ and ‘influencer’. 8/

We’ve been told repeatedly that under 13s are not allowed on Instagram. Why can we find multitudes of ‘tween’/’pre-teen’ girls - so called “models” and “influencers” on Instagram? And why is @Instagram continuing to connect them to thousands of predatory men? 9/

Girls - teen, young teen and pre teen - are being degraded and exploited on Instagram. Men can purchase their content - bikini pics included - on their personal websites, and content sharing sites like Patreon, Boosty and Select Sets, which are promoted in their bios. 10/

We have been calling on Instagram to stop allowing its platform to be used as an advertising site to flog sexualised content featuring minors. Instagram has failed to act. 11/

We will continue to highlight the failures of big tech to protect underage girls from sexualisation, predatory activity and exploitation; work to make parents aware; and campaign for change. 12/end

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