Instagram's new TV service recommended videos of potential child abuse

Exclusive: Instagram's new TV service, IGTV, recommended videos of what appeared to be child exploitation and genital mutilation during a three-week Business Insider investigation.

While monitoring IGTV, Business Insider found its algorithm recommended disturbing and potentially illegal videos.

Two of the videos, featuring suggestive footage of young girls, were reported to the police by a leading children's charity over concerns they broke the law.

Instagram took five days to remove the videos, and it apologized to users who saw them. The Facebook-owned app said it wanted IGTV to be a "safe place for young people."

Damian Collins, the British lawmaker who led the inquiry into Facebook's Cambridge Analytica data breach, described Business Insider's findings as "very disturbing."

https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-tv-service-igtv-recommended-potential-child-abuse-2018-9