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Instagram hosts sharing of child sex abuse fantasies

Posted on News by Lyn Kennedy · January 07, 2020 9:52 AM

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Instagram is a haven for child predators and a host to the broadcasting of child sex abuse fantasies. Contrary to corporate claims that there's 'no place' for content that exploits or endangers children, exploitative, graphic and degrading comments directed at underage girls are rampant on the Facebook-owned platform. 

Our campaign partners at National Center on Sexual Exploitation met with Instagram heads last December to discuss the ways Instagram puts children at risk and how child safety on Instagram could be improved. Instagram said that the matter of predatory comments will be investigated.  

Meanwhile, men continue to use Instagram to harass and fetishise little girls. See below for our latest roundup of child sex abuse fantasies and other predatory comments freely broadcast on Instagram. We will continue to expose and call out this predatory behaviour!

Take action today!

Help put pressure on Instagram corporate leaders to stop facilitating behaviours that harm children. Join the Twitter conversation using @collectiveshout #WakeUpInstagram and #InstaPimpsGirls.

 

See also:

Graphic rape comments fuel #WakeUpInstagram campaign

Insta must act on predators: Collective Shout letter to platform heads

eSafety commissioner backs Collective Shout's call for Instagram overhaul

Melinda Tankard Reist on ABC Radio National discussing the #WakeUpInstagram campaign

‘Sexy girl’: How Instagram allows the offering of young girls as fetishised flesh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Our best year ever! Wins and highlights of 2019

Posted on News by Caitlin Roper · December 19, 2019 7:05 PM · 1 reaction

What a year! Our team is tired...but elated. This year has seen us achieve some of our biggest wins in our 10-year history: and you helped us do it.

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Graphic rape comments fuel #WakeUpInstagram campaign

Posted on News by Lyn Kennedy · December 19, 2019 10:38 AM · 1 reaction

Each week we find new evidence that underage girls are at risk from predators on Instagram. We've rounded up some of the worst, recent examples of predatory comments we've come across and shared these below. Some of the comments depict male fantasies for carrying out violent sex abuse acts on little girls.

There should be no room anywhere for these comments, and that's why we are continuing to call on Instagram heads to stop the fetishisation and harassment of little girls that is happening on their platform. Join our campaign and help #WakeUpInstagram to child exploitation. Learn how here.

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Join the Twitter conversation by tagging @collectiveshout and using #WakeUpInstagram and #InstaPimpsGirls.

See also:

Insta must act on predators: Collective Shout letter to platform heads

eSafety commissioner backs Collective Shout's call for Instagram overhaul

I was so concerned about porn-themed portrayals of young girls on Instagram I reported to police

Melinda Tankard Reist on ABC Radio National discussing the #WakeUpInstagram campaign

If Instagram can restrict diet products they can stop child sexual exploitation

‘Sexy girl’: How Instagram allows the offering of young girls as fetishised flesh

Tech companies turn a blind eye to child sexual abuse material

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Insta must act on predators: Collective Shout letter to platform heads

Posted on News by Melinda Liszewski · December 05, 2019 10:36 AM

(Addressed to Instagram Global Head of Policy)

December 4, 2019

Widespread predation of underage girls on Instagram 

We have identified and collected hundreds of comments posted by men on the Instagram pages of underage girls between August and the time of writing. These include grooming-style comments, sexually harassing comments, requests for sexualised content (including nudes), requests for direct messages and for images to be sent via DM. Large numbers of comments are porn-themed. Men describe in explicit detail sexual abuse fantasies involving the underage girls whose identities and locations are often exposed, placing them at risk of further sexual exploitation. (We have compiled some of the most graphic comments here.) 

Inadequate tools for keeping children safe

These predatory comments exist in plain view, unmoderated and unremoved. In some cases they have remained for more than a year - including on posts of girls as young as 4-years- old. Our reports to Instagram are often dismissed as not violating its ‘community guidelines’. Recent examples of dimissed comments include: (on a 13-year-old girl’s post) ‘Omg i sooooo wanna (emoji denoting) lick your (emoji denoting) pussy n (emoji dentoing) ass’; (on a child advertising underwear) ‘Ok im going out of line you put it on i take it off’; ( on a 9- year-old girl’s post) ‘please open your legs’ + emojis including kiss-lips; (various comments on underage girls’ posts) eggplant/peach/cucumber/squirt emojis denoting sexual acts. If these comments are not deemed in violation of whatever standards you use to determine whether content you host is in breach or not, perhaps those standards need to be revised? 

There is also a serious shortcoming in Instagram’s reporting system. While comments can be reported as ‘harassment/bullying’ or as ‘violence/threat of violence’, there is no option which properly conveys the serious predatory and grooming nature of these comments. Instagram’s reporting system should include “sexualised/predatory/grooming comment directed at a minor” as its own category. 

Instagram also needs to take action to prohibit adults from using ‘live’ posts to contact minors. We have viewed a 13-year-old girl’s live posts during which she was bombarded with sexual comments including a request for sex, questions about her underwear, a man telling her he wanted her to give him an erection, another saying he would pay to meet her and others pressuring her to remove her shoes and show her feet. 

We note your statement about having “proactive technology” to keep the platform free from content that is harmful to children. Whatever methods Instagram has employed to date are insufficient for dealing with the rampant predation of children that we have documented. (Our response to Facebook’s official statement here.)

Instagram connects predators to children

Instagram is catering to the fantasy and fetishises of child predators. Through its ‘explore’ feature it directly connects predators with more underage girls. This appears to go directly against your own policies prohibiting content which endangers or exploits children . Regardless of the intended purposes of this feature, the reality is that it results in pointing predators directly to the girls they are preying on (virtually or in real life). Instagram should stop its ‘explore’ feature from promoting minors’ pages and connecting predators with children.

Parasite accounts

We have documented several Instagram pages devoted to republishing images of girls and young women in bikinis or in various modeling, gymnastics or dance poses. Posts on these pages frequently tag the child’s account with captions instructing others to follow the child. Some pages mix images of very young girls with porn-themed and pin-up style images of older teens and young women. These accounts serve as magnets for predators pointing them directly to more children. Instagram has responded to our reports of these accounts that they do not go against ‘community standards’. Instagram should properly investigate these parasite pages. Your company should also prohibit the republishing of images of children on pages that also feature pornified images of adults. 

Instagram serves as supplier for pedophile forums

We have documented the names of hundreds of underage models, gymnasts and dancers on pedophile forums. We’ve reviewed a selection of the profile pages and found that every one contains direct links to the child’s Instagram account/s. We’ve also reviewed several forum pages and have evidence that Instagram is the primary source of images shared to the forums where men write explicitly about sex-abuse acts they’d like to carry out on individual girls. We have evidence of an individual commenting on an underage girl’s Instagram post to direct others to the forums. 

Instagram accounts used to promote sale of images/videos of children

Some underage girls’ accounts are used to advertise monetised website subscriptions where men purchase exclusive photos and videos of children. Other accounts promote links to personal web pages where fans can purchase posters, calendars and photo/video packages. Underage girls also use Instagram to promote accounts on other social media platforms where sexualised content is under even less scrutiny, placing minors in further danger of being targeted by predators.  We believe that Instagram must cease acting as an advertising service for individuals selling images/videos of minors.

Conclusion

The evidence we have gathered demonstrates the sexual exploitation of underage girls on Instagram. Your company is allowing predators almost unfettered access to them.  Content hosted on your platform violates their right to grow up free from activity that harms them (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 36). Because of how common predatory behaviour has now become on Instagram, girls learn to think of it as normal which sets them up for even more harm.

We urge Instagram to prioritise this issue and act in a way that places the wellbeing of vulnerable young people above the interests of predators and reflects accepted standards of corporate social responsibility and ethical behaviour.

Recommendations

  • Revise ‘Community Standards’ so that all sexualised, predatory and grooming-style comments (text, slang, short-hand, hashtags, emojis and graphics) qualify as violations.
  • Add ‘sexualised/predatory/grooming comment directed at a minor’ as a reporting category. 
  • Prohibit adults from using ‘live’ posts to contact minors.
  • Update Instagram’s system used to detect and remove sexualised, predatory comments.
  • Recognising that Instagram serves as a supply source of images of children for web-based pedophile forums, update all relevant policies, guidelines and help documents (including ‘A Parent’s Guide to Instagram’) so that users are properly informed of the risks of sharing images of children to the platform.
  • Stop the ‘explore’ feature from promoting minors’ pages and connecting predators with children.
  • Investigate parasite pages that are exclusively devoted to republishing photos of minors, deleting pages where children are sexualised, harassed, groomed or where any type of predatory comments/behaviour is displayed.  
  • Prohibit the republishing of images of minors on Instagram pages that also feature porn-style images of adults. 

 

See also:

No Facebook, you're not doing enough to protect children.

Why is Instagram letting men share sexual fantasies about 7 year old girls?

Predators Paradise: girls are sexually exploited on Instagram

I was so concerned about porn-themed portrayals of young girls on Instagram I reported to police

eSafety commissioner backs Collective Shout's call for Instagram overhaul

A day of the girl on Instagram: posed, exposed and at risk

‘Sexy girl’: How Instagram allows the offering of young girls as fetishised flesh

 

 

 

 

 

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eSafety commissioner backs Collective Shout's call for Instagram overhaul

Posted on News by Melinda Liszewski · December 02, 2019 12:45 PM

Reported in The Age

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Melinda Tankard Reist on ABC Radio National discussing the #WakeUpInstagram campaign

Posted on Media by Melinda Liszewski · November 28, 2019 3:45 PM

A coalition of women’s rights groups in Australia, Canada and the United States has called on the photo-sharing giant Instagram to introduce tough new protections for young girls using the site.

The campaign with the hash-tag Wake Up Instagram says the platform is used to groom and harass adolescent and even pre-teen girls who post photographs.

The coalition has collected hundreds of sexually graphic comments posted by men. Its Australian spokeswoman is Melinda Tankard-Reist from the organisation Collective Shout.

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I was so concerned about porn-themed portrayals of young girls on Instagram I reported to police

Posted on News by Melinda Liszewski · November 28, 2019 10:16 AM

But Instagram says they don't violate "community guidelines"

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Predators Paradise: girls are sexually exploited on Instagram

Posted on News by Melinda Liszewski · November 25, 2019 2:08 PM

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No Facebook, you're not doing enough to protect children.

Posted on News by Coralie Alison · November 23, 2019 8:58 AM
  1. According to Fox News Facebook stated “Any content that endangers or exploits children is unthinkable and has no place on Instagram. We have policies that prohibit this type of content, and we use proactive technology to find and remove content that poses a risk to children. We’re constantly working on more ways to help prevent this behaviour on our platform.”

But we've found countless comments that have been up on underage girls' photos for up to a year. How is this using "proactive technology"? We've also reported hundreds of comments, many of which have taken weeks to get actioned and often the reply from Instagram is that they do not violate community guidelines. 

These comments here are from 27 weeks ago and 14 weeks ago. Also a comment regarding a topless shoot on a child's picture apparently did not violate Instagram's community guidelines:

Here's an example of comments from a man describing his desire to sexually assault a girl which apparently do not violate Instagram's community guidelines. And another example of a comment that had been up for 54 weeks:

This comment describing the sexual assault of and underage girl had been up for 38 weeks when we found it:

Here is a sample of 100+ comments we found on Instagram on pictures of underage girls:

  1. Sexy girl
  2. Mmm sexy
  3. Delicious
  4. Snack
  5. Hot little tidbit
  6. I can make you scream daddy
  7. You can sit down on my legs so that I can get hard
  8. Eggplant/squirt emojis signifying penis/sex abuse/masturbation/ejaculation
  9. Wow I’d love to spread those legs
  10. Cute budding breasts
  11. Yummy candy my favourite dessert + emojis signifying penis/sex abuse/masturbation/ejaculation
  12. Wanna jump on top of you laying like this
  13. I wanna slide in that so bad
  14. Beautiful ass out from water
  15. Love the pics of you in your cut lil panties. I hope you post more like this.
  16. Sit on my face like that
  17. Hello I am a young model scout and i am looking for a designer model. If you are interested write me pm
  18. Cooling off that hot ass? Nice
  19. I wish i could see more of you - send me a picture
  20. Sexy pussy
  21. So hot n sexy body
  22. I want to eat your everything if you don’t mind are you ready
  23. Wow body and boobs and facking nice 
  24. Such kissable full lips
  25. Nice pussy
  26. What is your snapchat name
  27. Yummmm
  28. Let me have porn sex for you
  29. Guess you like opening your legs
  30. Ooh la la + emojis signifying penis/sex abuse/masturbation/ejaculation
  31. Cute little tooshy
  32. Why did you have to cut off the best part of the pics. Still so sexy tho. Call me
  33. You are so dam yummy babe. When u going to pose in Victoria Secret outfits next
  34. Emojis signifying 'horny', penis/sex abuse/masturbation/ejaculation
  35. Uff so delicious
  36. I want lick
  37. Ahhhhh + emojis signifying penis/sex abuse/masturbation/ejaculation
  38. Stop cover up your body
  39. Imagine what am doing..10 inches n am cumming imaginit
  40. Hot wet pants
  41. I find it amazingly convenient that a specific area is wet
  42. Having that beautiful pair of legs on my shoulders and putting my penis in that beautiful ass
  43. Sweet camel toe; young camel toe; awesome lips, very edible and pokable
  44. I would love to fuck you SO HARD
  45. Fucking cutie be mine
  46. Super sexy for such a little girl
  47. You have the most ridiculously perfect sweet tender ass cheeks in the world.
  48. I want you
  49. That is so hot. You just made me …
  50. Mmm yummy
  51. Beautiful. Super cute in bare feet 
  52. Yes now stay like that – rape emojis
  53. Double penetration
  54. Looks like a fun group of girls. Wonder if they would do a private dance
  55. Hot AF, bootylicious
  56. Sweet and yummy
  57. Mmm hot sexy body
  58. I like you beautiful
  59. Nice legs
  60. Can you do a stretching vid without a skirt on in undies that are way too tight
  61. Want you caress and kiss you my love
  62. I always love your tight panties. Thanks for the great position
  63. Extreme cameltoe
  64. Yummy body
  65. Can I massage you
  66. The view from behind must be amazing
  67. I’ll put you on the bed n slowly take all your clothes off
  68. Would love to get soapy with you
  69. Dam you’re sexy goddam you’re hot
  70. Camel toe - squirt emoji
  71. Yeah I like to put it – rape emoji
  72. Can you jump up and down and make them wobble more plz
  73. Beautiful. Nice crotch
  74. I wanna slide in that and fill it up
  75. Let me suck your toes
  76. Hot sexy baby
  77. You are so sexy
  78. I love you sexy lady
  79. Sexy sexy sexy sexual lady
  80. You delicious, beautiful to eat
  81. Cute butt
  82. You’re getting way too sexy little girl
  83. Topless shoot would be so erotic
  84. Yes love that shorts. When it’s come off baby
  85. I’ll take you from the front or back baby..both my sweet little hot box
  86. (I like) the front while lying on your back preferably with your legs spread open
  87. Lovely cameltoe
  88. I know she got a fat lil pussy
  89. I bet you look amazing in those (underwear) I hope you show us
  90. Ok I’m going out of line - you put it (underwear) on I take it off
  91. Great pix - I was trying to imagine with less clothes
  92. Panty lines so cute
  93. I’d love to do that with you (pic of 2 girls in gymnastics pose)
  94. Wow mine would go in so smooth
  95. Sit on my face
  96. Yummy baby
  97. Stretch that labia
  98. Are you really 10..Please open your legs
  99. I busted a good night to this one
  100. Looks like she's getting it ball deep, very hot
  101. I masturbated to her
  102. I'm hungry for it
  103. el dedo en la vagina (the finger in the vagina)
  104. I'm in need of a sugar baby that I will spoil with shopping allowance and gift. DM if interested USA only
  105. I eat you
  106. I pay for meeting you
  107. You wear bra?
  108. Care to be my sugar baby?
  109. She's got legs for dayyyys (pic of 6yo girl)
  110. You pose so perfect for tongue workout
  111. That is such a naughty look in your eyes
  112. So hot be perfect for you to take it
  113. One sexy little princess
  114. I thought cum in your face
  115. I wish I was that pumpkin your sitting on
  116. I better start tossing some money at you
  117. fancy a drink?
  118. Your vagina is little
  119. Sexy legs small boobs
  120. I wanna lick your pussy and ass
  121. Love to taste your butt hole an lick your wet pussy
  122. OMG anal licking
  123. Let me put my dick in ur asshole
  124. Her face after getting a massive cock in her fat pussy

We need to send a strong message to Instagram. Add your name to the letter here. 

 


See also:

Why is Instagram letting men share sexual fantasies about 7 year old girls?

Help Wake Up Instagram to Child Exploitation!

Instagram a “predator’s paradise”: Collective Shout joins anti sexploitation groups in global campaign

‘Sexy girl’: How Instagram allows the offering of young girls as fetishised flesh

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Why is Instagram letting men share sexual fantasies about 7 year old girls?

Posted on News by Coralie Alison · November 23, 2019 6:00 AM

Why does Instagram allow men to tell underage girls they want to rape them? Global call for action to protect minors from predators.

Collective Shout has joined a global campaign calling on Instagram to take urgent action to protect young girls from the predatory behaviours of large numbers of men congregating on their pages. Campaigner Lyn Swanson Kennedy discovered hundreds of comments from men describing sexual acts they wanted to perform on the girls.

Collective Shout has joined forces with the National Centre on Sexual Exploitation (US) and Demand Dignity (Canada) stating that Instagram has become a predator’s paradise and calling on the global picture-posting platform to implement safety measures to protect underage girls.

Kennedy described her shock at coming across large numbers of predatory comments containing descriptions of sexual abuse fantasies even for girls as young as seven - and grooming-style behaviours on the Facebook-owned platform. A 9-year old girl was described as having a ‘fat little p*ssy’ by one man while another described in detail how he would assault her.

“Instagram is providing a platform for men to share their sexually explicit comments about young girls,” Kennedy said

"What we’ve found shows that sexualisation and harassment of underage girls on Instagram is rampant. By giving adults unfettered access to children and facilitating the transmission of sexual comments Instagram is complicit in putting underage girls at risk and normalising them as available for sexual gratification.

“This is a gross act of social irresponsibility and violates socially expected standards of corporate conduct. 

“My colleagues and I are spending a lot of time reporting these comments. Too often Instagram says the sexually explicit comments don’t violate their “community guidelines”. Perhaps it’s time for their board to come up with some new guidelines to protect children?”

We are calling for Instagram to: 

1) Change its settings so that strangers cannot direct message minors.

2) Fix its algorithm to proactively remove sexualising or sexually graphic comments on minor’s photos.

3) Update its reporting system so that if someone is reporting a sexual comment on a minor’s post it can be reported as such. The “harassment/bullying” selection does not capture the fact that these comments come from adults who are grooming/sexualising/harassing a child.

The campaign is being run under the hashtags #WakeUpInstagram and #InstaPimpsGirls. Screenshots and videos of evidence here: https://endsexualexploitation.org/instagram/.

Saturday 23 November 2019


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