If Child Protection Is Musk’s ‘Top Priority,’ Why Is It So Easy To Find Users Selling Images Of Nude Minors On Twitter?

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Elon Musk has been lauded for his pledge to crack down on Twitter's longstanding problem with child abuse imagery. Yet such illegal content is still easy to find—and being shared freely—across the platform.

found dozens of users offering to buy and sell child sexual abuse images and videos. One offered footage of nude children ages 5 to 17. Another mentioned an exchange of images of children being abused on Telegram. Both these tweets, as well as nearly 30 others either promoting or seeking CSAM, were posted in the last week.

Other questionable hashtags were still searchable. One containing an abbreviation long associated with CSAM returned ads, including one containing the image of what appeared to be an underage girl, offering an RFID tag that could be scanned and promised to take the user through to a CSAM-themed website.also found multiple Spanish-language users offering what appeared to be images of minor girls over on Telegram, with Spanish hashtags attached.

Even some hashtags that were ostensibly banned before Musk took over Twitter returned a handful of problematic results. While no new posts were visible when searching one such hashtag, one popped up from June in which a user said they were looking for images of newborns. That user was still on Twitter as of Tuesday. With only three posts, all carrying the same text and image, it’s possible they were a bot, another bugbear Musk has promised to tackle. It’s unclear why the account remains online.

“I don't see any meaningful action taken by Musk so far,” said Carolina Christofoletti, a CSAM threat analyst for TRM Labs and researcher at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. Shethat the issue “is far bigger than a bunch of hashtags” and “much bigger than ‘easy to catch’ fishes.” She noted that the wiping of some troubling CSAM hashtags and other associated actions “were all things done under the previous leadership.

 

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White lives matter

That’s scary how you know that. Most Republicans are new to Twitter and just now coming back to Twitter. The left who are abusing this platform for this problem should work on their own problem.

I don’t see any child abused imagery on Twitter. Forbes must try really hard to find those.

How about going after the people who allowed it to be there in the first place!

So, now you care?

Because the previous rulers of Twitterland let it run rampant. Give him time to reign it in.

Well is it improving or is it? Now versus a year ago?

At least give him a chance

Here’s who owns Forbes. Biased? Yyyyyyup!!! Integrated Whale Media Investments, China (Hong Kong) (95%) Forbes family (5%)

Weird, Forbes didn’t seem to care before Elon bought Twitter. Motive Biased

Agreed , also, Snapchat , tiktok_us , tumblr should do the same

Hey have you seen a LaptopFromHell around by chance?

Funny no concern before Elon

It's illegal for felons to own a firearm, yet they still do, don't they? No rule, law, or policy will prevent 100% of anything.

Forbes has a revenchard attitude

Yesterday alone 44k accounts relating to this material have been removed. Thats already more than pre-elon twitter has done in the last 10years. Stop pushing an agenda. You look like 🤡

'He only just recently bought it. Don't act like you all dind't ignore this issue for the last 5-10 years.🤡' It's pathetic how hard you're trying. Get a grip. You're on the wrong side.

Elon hate-bait is quite the thing. After 13 years of Twitter doing nothing, he's doing something and your partisan gripe is it's not enough, after 3 weeks?

If inflation is the President’s priority, why is the inflation still this high?

Or you request the Epstein files for next friday? It can be done!

Facts: Forbes nearly never talk about child abuses when they use it its to destroy someone.

All of a sudden this is important ?

Lets say a country has no more money to give to their central banks, what do they gives? childrens?

Pure hit piece. I notice you didn't talk to any activist he has been coordinating with to fight this stuff. You contacted some professor in Brazil though. On one hand you talk about how bad it is on Twitter, and in the next sentence condemn him for firing the people responsible.

The media is concerned about child abuse all in a sudden?

Forbes complaining after a decade of inaction of OLD Twitter on the subject... that Elon Musk NEW Twitter removing an estimated 44.000+ child exploiting accounts in 24 hours isnt enough - is ultimate hypocrisy and puts the focus on the ridiculous double standards in media.

🤔💭Twitter OVERWHELMED Musk When He Dallied Around Ownership/Privatization Of Twitter’s Platform. At This Point, Musk Can Try To Sell Twitter BUT Given The Poor Shape That It’s Already In, It’s UNLIKELY He Will Be To Able To Recoup What He Originally Invested…EndOfTwitter

The desperation in these articles is telling.

Why are you looking for child porn? Disgusting

Violence against children doesn't stop at any boundary. It happens in every country, in the places that are supposed to best protect them — in their homes, in their schools, and on the Internet. Violence may be physical, emotional or sexual.

It was always easy. And it's only when someone you don't like bought the company that you care.

Wait, now you give a shit about it ?

Good going elonmusk . Good going.

How hard are you looking? 99% of us never come close to coming across this material yet you say it's just freely out in the open? You're gross,

😡😠🤬

Because he's a liar?

Patience - amazing how much bashing is happening against elonmusk as he tries to make changes that hopefully will make Twitter more trusted and relevant with less political favoritism.

He's owned it for 5 minutes. Why not ask jack that question?

Why didn’t you ask this question a year ago?

If you find it easy denounce and help him fight. Create a mass campaign in your vehicle to fight the problem and not criticize. Unless the head of your company have the same behavior as the ones he is fighting.

Do you suggest the left let it run wild to the point even Elon is having trouble cleaning it up?

I subscribe to . I've just got to say I've been using Twitter a lot recently. Not once have I seen something like you're suggesting. Maybe it's out there, but elonmusk appears to be doing great at his promise. Your report is not as accurate as it makes itself to be.

How long has he owned it?

Easy to find? Really. Start that electric chair back up in mass and I think we can see a electrifying change.

Funnily enough, those who are actually on the platform and have been calling for this to stop for years are saying the removals are happening and making a huge difference.

Because it’s been like a week 🙄 No reports from Forbes under old Twitter even though you knew it was a problem for years. Why is that?

He’s only been at it for a month and he’s made great improvement. At least pretend that you’re unbiased

And I’m gonna love this ratio’ed bullshit MSM fake MSM tweet, because when Jack Dorsey owned Twitter you reported exactly 0 times about CP being any kind of problem what so ever, you simp liberal fake news spreading, safe space dwelling simps that you are😡😡

Probably shouldn’t be telling people that

It’s much better than it was before and that’s the point , weird you didn’t write about it before

So, when it was a “private company” you had zero issues with Cap being on Twitter, and now that it’s a private company you have issues, you are all criminals part of the fakest MSM to ever exist, and this show it, CP didn’t start when elonmusk bought it, it was a huge problem…

Give the guy a space to breath! For heavens sake he just took over the CEO position

Time for the FBI to actually do something right and go arrest these pedos that are sharing it!!

elonmusk - maybe give feedback to the Twitter team to help stamp this out and report those people.

Forbes, you could at least try to seem less blatantly bias. You should be careful, people aren’t trusting you and starting to group you together with authoritarian state run media.

If you don't know Elmo is a QAnon, no one can help you.

Well clearly the answer to this is, the previous ownership allowed so much of it, that even though much has been done.. the sheer volume previously allowed was appalling.

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