Professor Brian Levine, director of the UMass Rescue Lab, is a contributor to a Wall Street Journal investigative report alleging that Instagram's algorithms are helping connect and promote a vast network of accounts devoted to the commission and purchase of underage-sex content. "Instagram is an on-ramp to places on the internet where there's more explicit child sexual abuse," says Levine, who is an author of a 2022 report for the National Institute of Justice on internet child exploitation.
https://archive.ph/2023.06.07-110733/https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/instagram-vast-pedophile-network-4ab7189
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