Instagram content recommendations, hashtags helped boost network of child porn

Instagram is the most popular platform for the advertisement of the creation and sale of underage-sex content, according to a new report.

, large networks of accounts that appear to have been operated by minors were advertising the sale of self-generated child sexual abuse content.

“Due to the widespread use of hashtags, relatively long life of seller accounts and, especially, the effective recommendation algorithm, Instagram serves as the key discovery mechanism for this specific community of buyers and sellers,” the researchers wrote. The company said its specialist teams dismantled 27 abusive networks from 2020 to 2022, and 490,000 accounts were disabled for violating its child safety policies.

“It's kind of a whack-a-mole thing where one problem pops up, goes away and a new problem pops up,” Selepak said.

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