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Dec 5, 20235 min read

Mark Zuckerberg Promotes Pedophilia – And I Feel Like the Only One Who Cares

Written by: Kasey Lynae


Up until this past May, I was on Facebook for years. I am a millennial, so as soon as Facebook became more important to my friends in high school than Myspace was, my account was made. Peer pressure is a wonderful thing. We all dropped our first friend Tom like a bad habit – even though looking back on it, Myspace was arguably a way cooler platform that even let you change your profile background and add crappy music for all your visitors to hear. With Facebook came a new level of cool and a new age of albums and albums full of selfies, funny dogs, and food pics.


A lot of people wonder why I left Facebook, why I refuse to get on Instagram, and why I came to X/ Twitter and will never look back. After all, I was on Twitter for about five minutes in 2010, but it never caught my attention quite like Facebook did. Maybe it’s because I have quite a lot to say if you haven’t figured it out yet. Twelve years ago, the Twitter space was too new to let you go over the word count limit.


In May of this year (2023), I listened to my regularly scheduled Wednesday Podcast by Amala Ekpunobi while cooking dinner. Even if I don't catch it live, I am a serious regular on her podcasts. During the episode, she discussed Meta platforms with Taylor (her cohost). The pair showed all the evidence exposing Instagram as a platform promoting pedophilia. I was enraged, and it got me thinking about all my experiences on Facebook. Instagram and Facebook are both part of the “meta-verse” by Zuckerberg, so it’s not like my thought process encountered a far jump.


Over the years, probably starting around the 2016 election, Facebook was majorly censoring content. During COVID-19, the censorship got way worse (although I’m not sure if Facebook was booting people off completely like Twitter and Instagram). Additionally, during COVID, Kids Messenger platforms were released. Seemingly, these conditions may not go together. But I have to question why it is so difficult for Mark Zuckerberg to censor content from pedophiles. He certainly has no issues censoring content from conservatives. Since he cannot censor content from pedophiles, and he admits that he cannot (I will get to this soon), why is he promoting kid's messenger platforms that make their safety options even more limited?


So here is the hard truth about Zuckerberg and his Meta Platforms.


We all know what Instagram does – it connects many accounts together through commonalities. Well, did you know that the Wall Street Journal, Stanford University, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst uncovered the accounts devoted to the commission and purchase of underage sex content back in May 2023? For some reason, although this story broke over six months ago, it seems like it has been repressed, and it was repressed QUICKLY. I seem to be one of the only people on the planet who knows anything about it somehow (at least in my direct community).


Unlike the pedophile forums of yesteryear, Instagram doesn’t stop at hosting pedophiles- it promotes them. Yes, PROMOTE. According to the aforementioned research, the algorithm connects pedophiles and guides them to content sellers via systems that link shared niche interests. The thing is, if you’re not a pedophile, you probably won’t see it. I wouldn’t recommend setting your algorithm to give you the ability. The sexualized accounts on the platform are not shy about their interest in buying and selling children. The researchers found that Instagram enabled specific search hashtags containing explicit words, such as #pedowhore and #preteensex. All users who searched via these hashtags were connected to accounts that advertised children for sale.


Instagram accounts that engage in this activity are generally not open about their published content. Instead, they invite “buyers” and commission sex acts. Researchers found prices for videos of children harming themselves and imagery of minors performing sex acts with animals. At the right price, children are even “available for in-person meet-ups.”


The promotion of underage sex content violates Meta rules and federal law. The company merely says they are “continuously investigating ways to defend against this behavior actively.”


Now let’s fast forward to just a few days ago, since the excuses Meta has given developed and were published on December 1, 2023.


Meta has spent more than five months supposedly trying to fix the child-safety problems on Instagram and Facebook. Reports show it struggled to prevent its own systems from enabling and promoting huge networks of pedophilia accounts.

The same research team, along with the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, shows that Meta’s recommendation systems still promote child sex trafficking content. Literally, all Zuckerberg and his company have done thus far is take down a few pedophilia-related hashtags. The systems have even recommended new hashtags with minor differences in verbiage. Meta is not consistently taking down problem accounts.

The new tests from this month show that the problem is even worse than Instagram. Although I left Facebook in May when the initial news broke, I told my friends and family that the problem is surely on Facebook too. Sure enough, according to new reports, a huge universe of Facebook Groups centered around sexualizing children exists. The Facebook platform promotes these groups to connect users with similar interests.

A Meta spokesman said the company hid 190,000 groups on Facebook and disabled thousands of accounts related to pedophilia, but there are still tens of thousands of online predators and determined criminals to go. This might seem great, but in the same breath, the spokesman admits to being reluctant to limit the systems that present content in a personalized way because “it is not a reasonable approach to preventing inappropriate recommendations.” He added, “Every day, our systems help connect millions of people with interesting and positive groups relevant to them, including cancer support and job listings.”


So, here I am, enraged once again. The left is so typical. They can’t protect children “because - cancer.” They can’t protect children “because - jobs.” They berate me for being Pro-Life. They ridicule us and have ZERO PROBLEM censoring conservatives. In fact, being Pro-Life is awful to them because they always say, “What about the kids already living that have it rough?”


I ask you, Mark Zuckerberg. You are a father. Do you even care about kids? What about the kids living that have it rough? What about the kids being SOLD FOR SEX on YOUR PLATFORMS? What about it?


Fuck the adults. Fuck the jobs. Job boards exist everywhere. Cancer support groups exist everywhere (ask the hospital). Stop making excuses. You don’t care about the kids. If you do, PROVE IT.


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