Post by @Frederik_Borgesius@akademienl.social

2026-07-03 09:25 UTC

‘Instagram has been running paid adverts promoting child sexual abuse material in India, a BBC Eye investigation has found. (…) Ads on Instagram are only published after first being approved by its moderation technology. When the BBC reported one of the ads to Instagram, the social media platform responded 24 hours later saying the post did not violate its &quot;community guidelines&quot;.’ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgm4e0316zo #law #tech

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@dianea@lgbtqia.space 2026-07-04 07:02

@Frederik_Borgesius@akademienl.social apparently, CSAM is billionaire community guideline material.

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@MyricaGale@mastodon.scot 2026-07-04 08:18

@Frederik_Borgesius@akademienl.social Meta later told the BBC that "no system is perfect, and our review process may not detect all policy violations". Meta can afford to employ, say a million, human reviewers of content rather than using "AI". Which may go a long way to fixing this issue worldwide. Same for all social media systems. "AI" has no morality, does not understand the reasons for policy at a human level.

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@f800gecko@mastodon.online 2026-07-04 12:46

@Frederik_Borgesius@akademienl.social Facebook for those who need that reminder. This is where the ad dollars help you generate go.

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