Stanford University and UMass Researchers Uncover Disturbing Pedoph*le Network on Instagram

In a joint investigation conducted by The Wall Street Journal and researchers at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, it was revealed that Instagram, the social media platform owned by Mark Zuckerberg, is serving as a hub to “connect and promote a vast network of accounts openly devoted to the commission and purchase of underage-sex content.”

Unlike traditional forums and file-transfer services associated with illicit content, Instagram’s algorithms actively encourage and recommend such activities, effectively connecting pedophiles and guiding them to content sellers, WSJ reported.

The researchers discovered that Instagram enables users to search for explicit hashtags, such as #pedowhore and #preteensex, connecting them to accounts advertising “child-sex material for sale.”

These accounts often claim to be operated by the children themselves and use overtly sexual handles. Rather than openly publishing illicit content, these accounts provide “menus” of available content, sometimes inviting buyers to commission specific acts. Shockingly, some of these menus even include prices for videos of children harming themselves and engaging in “sexual acts with animals,” according to the Stanford Internet Observatory.

“At the right price, children are available for in-person “meet-ups,”” WSJ added.

The promotion of underage-sex content on Instagram violates both federal law and Meta’s established rules. In response to inquiries from The Wall Street Journal, Meta acknowledged the issues within its enforcement operations and established an internal task force to address these concerns.

Instagram’s user base has been consistently growing since its launch in 2010. Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012.

In many countries, the distribution, possession, and promotion of child sexual abuse material are criminal offenses, including the US. If a social media company is found to be knowingly facilitating or promoting such content, they may face legal consequences, including fines and other penalties. Additionally, their platforms may be subject to investigations and potential shutdowns or restrictions.

Writer and researcher @JoshWalkos discussed the disturbing report in a series of tweets:

“A Meta spokesman said the company actively seeks to remove such users, taking down 490,000 accounts for violating its child safety policies in January alone. “

“In 2022, the center (National Center for Missing & Exploited Children) received 31.9 million reports of child pornography, mostly from internet companies—up 47% from two years earlier.”

“The Stanford team found 128 accounts offering to sell child-sex-abuse material on Twitter, less than a third the number they found on Instagram, which has a far larger overall user base than Twitter.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/stanford-university-umass-researchers-uncover-disturbing-pedophle-network/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/instagram-vast-pedophile-network-4ab7189

CNN Fires CEO Chris Licht After Just 13 Months

Chris Licht, the embattled CEO of CNN who took a wrecking ball to many of the network's leftist anchors as part of an image rehabilitation, is out of a job after just 13 months, Puck News first reported.

His tenure at the network was marked with controversy, including the shuttering of the network's failed CNN+ streaming platform at the request of CNN's new owners who were unsure about a standalone digital product, a move which resulted in scores of layoffs. The network's financial picture has also been worsening - generating just $750 million in profit last year, including one-time losses from CNN+, down from $1.25 billion the year before.

As Axios notes, "Licht’s leadership became untenable following a damning profile about him published by The Atlantic last week."

Meanwhile, one day before the Atlantic story was published, longtime confidant of Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, David Leavy, was named Chief Operating Officer of CNN.

According to The Atlantic, the Town Hall with former President Donald Trump was the last straw;

When he took the helm of CNN, in May 2022, Licht had promised a reset with Republican voters—and with their leader. He had swaggered into the job, telling his employees that the network had lost its way under former President Jeff Zucker; that their hostile approach to Trump had alienated a broader viewership that craved sober, fact-driven coverage. These assertions thrust Licht into a two-front war: fighting to win back Republicans who had written off the network, while also fighting to win over his own journalists, many of whom believed their new boss was scapegoating them to appease his new boss, David Zaslav, who’d hired Licht with a decree to move CNN toward the ideological center.

One year into the job, Licht was losing both battles. Ratings, in decline since Trump left office, had dropped to new lows. Employee morale was even worse. A feeling of dread saturated the company. Licht had accepted the position with ambitions to rehabilitate the entire news industry, telling his peers that Trump had broken the mainstream media and that his goal was to do nothing less than “save journalism.” But Licht had lost the confidence of his own newsroom. Because of this, he had come to view the prime-time event with Trump as the moment that would vindicate his pursuit of Republican viewers while proving to his employees that he possessed a revolutionary vision for their network and the broader news media.

Trump had other ideas.

For 70 minutes in Manchester, the former president overpowered CNN’s moderator, Kaitlan Collins, with a continuous blast of distortion, hyperbole, and lies. The audience of Trump devotees delighted in his aggression toward Collins, cheering him on so loudly and so purposefully that what began as a journalistic forum devolved into a WWE match before the first voter asked a question.

In March, FTVLive suggested that Licht didn't have long at the network - with one insider telling the outlet that he "doesn't have his ear to the ground." A spokesperson for the network refuted the report, saying that Licht and Saslav aren't on the same page.

Guess that denial was fake news and it's back to business as usual?

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cnn-fires-ceo-chris-licht-after-just-13-months

Signed Letter by President Trump Reveals He Declassified Docs on Obama Regime Spying on Him the Day Before He Left Office – Explains Why They Raided Mar-a-Lago – CONFIRMS Our Previous Reporting

DC Draino on Wednesday morning tweeted out a signed letter by President Trump dated January 19, 2021. This was the day before President Trump left office. The presidential letter declassifies all of the Crossfire Hurricane documents that prove Barack Obama, James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, the FBI, CIA, State Department and Deep State spied on him and knew the Trump-Russia collusion hoax was a scam.

This is devastating news for the Biden regime. Don’t expect this to make any headlines in the fake news today!

Now this–

New details on Monday’s raid of Mar-a-Lago may offer an explanation on what the FBI was looking for and why the FBI has not released the Spygate documents as they were ordered to when President Trump left office.

Investigative reporter Paul Sperry had his Twitter account taken down for the second time on Monday.

Sperry had his first Twitter account removed after he identified Eric Ciaramella as the leaker in the first Trump impeachment trial.

Sperry had his second account takedn down on Monday after he tweeted about the Mar-a-Lago raid and what the FBI was looking for.

According to Paul Sperry, the FBI agenst spent 9 hours looking for details President Trump took with him on the Crossfire Hurricane FBI spying scandal.

The FBI and DOJ cannot let the American public know the truth of the their criminal acts and attempted coup of President Trump. So they raided his home looking for the documents that may indict the organization.

Cristina Laila reported this earlier today.

REPORT: FBI Confidential Human Source Told FBI What Documents Trump Stored at Mar-a-Lago and Where to Search…. Related to Spygate?

Zero Hedge reported:

Twitter has suspended journalist Paul Sperry after he made several tweets about this week’s FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, where they spent up to 9 hours rifling through the former president’s private office, Melania Trump’s wardrobe, and eventually took 12 boxes of material…

Sperry: “DEVELOPING: Investigators reportedly met back in June w Trump & his lawyers in Mar-a-Lago storage rm to survey docs & things seemed copasetic but then FBI raids weeks later. Speculation on Hill FBI had PERSONAL stake & searching for classified docs related to its #Spygate scandal.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/breaking-signed-letter-president-trump-reveals-he-declassified/

Instagram Reinstates RFK Jr.'s Account After He Questions The Ban On Twitter

Three days after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted on Twitter that he was still banned from Instagram, the Meta-owned social media platform announced that it has restored his account.

“As he is now an active candidate for president of the United States, we have restored access to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s, Instagram account,” Andy Stone, a spokesperson for Instagram’s parent company Meta, said in a June 4 statement.

Kennedy, who is seeking the Democrat presidential nomination and is running against President Joe Biden and author Marianne Williamson, was barred from Instagram in February 2021 for what Meta described as breaking its rules regarding COVID-19.

At the time, a company spokesperson said Instagram removed his account for “repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines.”

Meta owns Facebook and Instagram. Kennedy’s Facebook account remained active.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/instagram-reinstates-rfk-jrs-account-after-he-questions-ban-twitter