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The 15th anniversary of Twitter may be cause for celebration among millions of trolls dwelling in mom’s basement but it isn’t that way for everyone.
The social media sewer — beloved by woke and right wing wackos alike — has also spawned an epidemic of child sex abuse.
Sunday marks the widely-criticized site’s birthday but its lemons and coals from the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (C3P).
The group portrays Twitter as a wild west of sickening child sex abuse images and survivors are calling out the social media giant for its woeful lack of action around the material.
Now, C3P has launched a powerful public service campaign to get Twitter to remove the vile images from the platform.
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According to 2020 data reported by Twitter to NCMEC, there has been a 41% increase in reports of child sexual abuse images in just one year.
Twitter has declined help from the group in finding the images and ditching them. They characterize Twitter’s practices as “poor.”
Survivors of child pornography often spend thousands of hours trying to scrub abusive images of themselves. Instead of help, they allegedly get “push back.”
“From infancy until I was 15, I was trafficked and used in child sexual abuse material (also known as child pornography) which continues to be shared widely across the internet. I spend hours every day searching for my own content, reporting thousands of accounts and posts sharing CSAM,” one survivor said on a PSA video released by C3P.
“When platforms don’t actively look for or prevent this content from being uploaded, the burden falls on me to have these images removed. Each time one account gets taken down, five more take its place. It’s like a hydra, a monster that I can never defeat.”
Now, in “celebration” of Twitter’s birthday, C3P is releasing a video capturing the collective voices and raw emotion of survivors.
Twitter reports instances of illegal child sexual abuse material to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).
According to 2020 data from NCMEC, there has been a 41% increase in reports of CSAM from Twitter in just one year, which points to a potential escalation in the use of Twitter to make such content available.
The organization is encouraging people to visit BirthdayPlea.com to learn more about the problem.
bhunter@postmedia.com
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