Apple, Disney, Oracle, and other prominent advertisers fled Twitter/X over a trumped-up antisemitism row but have no problem spending zillions on platforms that promote pedophilia.
There is, no doubt, antisemitic content on Twitter. Hardly as much as is on TikTok or Instagram, which are proven to be platforms where antisemitism spreads like wildfire. But it takes enormous manipulation of the Twitter algorithm to get ads placed anywhere next to an antisemitic post (Media Matters specifically manipulated the algorithm to make it happen, for which they are being sued).
I joined @RitaPanahi on @SkyNewsAust to discuss @elonmusk's pushback against false antisemitism accusations and skittish woke advertisers, my recent @YAFUMich talk that was shouted down by pro-Hamas protesters, and what Israel must now do in Gaza post-"truce." pic.twitter.com/2yE2EfQhYu
— Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) December 1, 2023
In other words, the antisemitic ad placement scandal is a hoax.
But pedophilia on Facebook and Instagram? Not so much. It is a real and ongoing problem, and none of the virtue-signaling corporations care about it.
Meta is having trouble keeping pedophiles off Facebook and Instagram. Despite stepped up enforcement, its algorithms keep promoting problem content. https://t.co/j5GP1gGvmY https://t.co/j5GP1gGvmY
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) December 1, 2023
Back in June, after a Wall Street Journal expose on how Instagram actively promoted pedophilic content, Meta set up a task force to root out the child sexual exploitation material.
It hasn’t worked.
The social-media giant set up a child-safety task force in June after The Wall Street Journal and researchers at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst revealed that Instagram’s algorithms connected a web of accounts devoted to the creation, purchasing and trading of underage-sex content.
Five months later, tests conducted by the Journal as well as by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection show that Meta’s recommendation systems still promote such content. The company has taken down hashtags related to pedophilia, but its systems sometimes recommend new ones with minor variations. Even when Meta is alerted to problem accounts and user groups, it has been spotty in removing them.
The tests show that the problem extends beyond Instagram to encompass the much broader universe of Facebook Groups, including large groups explicitly centered on sexualizing children. Facebook, which counts more than three billion monthly users worldwide, promotes its groups feature as a way to connect users with similar interests.
So Meta’s algorithm promotes child sexual exploitation material, the platform is hesitant to take it down even when alerted, and the biggest advertisers online are boycotting…Twitter/X.
Make it make sense.
Actually, it does make sense, but only when you accept the fact that these major corporations are indifferent to moral issues and highly interested in promoting a political agenda aligned with the Left.
Meta is on their side, and if Meta can make money off of pedophiles, then more power to them!
Tim Cook, Bob Iger, and the boys who vote Blue have their priorities straight. After all, they come from the Harvey Weinstein/Jeffrey Epstein side of the political aisle.
Never, ever take anybody’s word when they are virtue signaling. They are telling you what they want you to hear.
Look at what they do.
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