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**Shocking Study Reveals Pedophile Network on Instagram**

In a disturbing joint investigation, experts from The Wall Street Journal, Stanford University, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst have uncovered a vast network of accounts on Instagram actively promoting and selling underage-sex content. Unlike other platforms, Instagram’s algorithm seems to be encouraging and even guiding pedophiles to these vile content sellers. This alarming discovery has prompted calls for more stringent measures to combat these criminal activities.

Instagram, owned by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms Inc, has been found to actively enable users to search for explicit hashtags, like #pedowhore and #preteensex. These hashtags connect users to accounts promoting “child-sex material for sale.” Researchers discovered that some of these accounts even claim to be run by the children themselves, using overtly sexual usernames to attract attention. Instead of directly posting illegal content, these accounts offer menus of various explicit acts that buyers can commission, including shocking cases of children engaging in self-harm or committing sexual acts with animals, according to the findings from the Stanford Internet Observatory.

The Wall Street Journal also noted that “at the right price, children are available for in-person ‘meet-ups.'” Instagram’s blatant promotion of underage-sex material not only breaks federal law but also goes against Meta’s rules. Following inquiries from The Wall Street Journal, Meta admitted to the issues within its enforcement operations and subsequently established an internal task force to address these alarming findings.

Instagram has enjoyed a steadily increasing user base since its 2010 launch, with Facebook purchasing it for $1 billion in

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