Mastodon, an alternative social network to Twitter, has a serious problem with child sexual abuse material according to researchers from Stanford University. In just two days, researchers found over 100 instances of known CSAM across over 325,000 posts on Mastodon. The researchers found hundreds of posts containing CSAM related hashtags and links pointing to CSAM trading and grooming of minors. One Mastodon server was even taken down for a period of time due to CSAM being posted. The researchers suggest that decentralized networks like Mastodon need to implement more robust moderation tools and reporting mechanisms to address the prevalence of CSAM.

  • Penguinblue@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This is exactly what I thought. The story here is that the human race has a massive child abuse material problem.

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      1 year ago

      The problem is even bigger: some places (ejem Reddit) you will get deplatformed for explaining and documenting why there is a problem.

      (even here, I’ll censor myself, and hopefully restrict to content not too hard to moderate)