A recent study by Stanford's Internet Observatory has unveiled a disturbing prevalence of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), otherwise known as child pornography, on Mastodon. The decentralized social media platform has been a popular destination for leftists fleeing from Twitter since Elon Musk purchased the platform.

In a two-day research period, the team discovered 112 instances of known child pornography across 325,000 posts on Mastodon. Alarmingly, the first instance of such material was identified within just five minutes of the investigation. “We got more photoDNA hits in a two-day period than we’ve probably had in the entire history of our organization of doing any kind of social media analysis, and it’s not even close,” said David Thiel, one of the report’s researchers.

    • GeraldEstaban@exploding-heads.com
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      1 year ago

      Couldn’t agree more. Especially considering beecuck and blablaj-zone or whatever they’re called literally harbor LGBT aka some of the worst pedos imaginable. Anyone who thinks I’m lying just know that they’ve encouraged people to take their kids to drag shows, or try and encourage child mutilation though surgery or hormones, absolutely disgusting 🤮.

  • hoodlem@hoodlem.meEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The researchers employed Google’s SafeSearch API and PhotoDNA, a tool designed to identify explicit images, to conduct their investigation

    Ok, make these tools available for Mastodon to use? Whether automatic or in tools for admins or moderators.