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Instagram has become a happy hunting ground for child-sex content providers and users..
Can Meta rein them in?A probe by Wall Street Journal and academic researchers found Instagram not only hosts child-sex content but its algorithms promote them by connecting pedophiles to content sellers.. ..
. Instagram, the popular social-media site owned by Meta 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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