Meta Struggles to Combat Pedophilic Content on Its Platforms

Despite forming a child-safety task force and banning pedophile-related hashtags, the company's platforms continue to promote pedophilic content.

Meta, Facebook's parent company, is struggling to combat pedophilic content on its platforms, despite forming a child-safety task force earlier this year.
The Wall Street Journal and researchers at Stanford and the University of Massachusetts Amherst found that Instagram's algorithms were connected to a distribution network of underage sex content.
Despite efforts to ban pedophile-related hashtags and disable suspicious accounts, pedophilic content is still being promoted on Meta's platforms.
Meta has been criticized for not taking sufficient action, with the company's platforms still actively promoting pedophilic content.
The European Union has requested more information from Meta about its measures to tackle child sexual abuse online.