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[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Err... no shit? I spent 5 years off the internet. When I got back around a year ago I tried making a facebook account just to keep in touch with some family members.

Go try it. Use a VPN to block your IP, make a brand new account from a brand new email address and pop on and off a few times. I gaurantee that their shorts section will show you little girls in bikinis or skin tight leotards doing "gymnastics" that aren't actually gymnastics. Click on one of them and read the insane comments from men very clearly saying they want to fuck these children.

Congratulations. Now that you've clicked on one of them they will show up in that shorts section a lot more often. If you click a few to read the comments in horror you'll be getting loads of them.

They appear in the shorts section, which is 55% dedicated to women doing blatantly sexual things, 20% guys doing stupid things, 5% anything else they might think will make people click, and 20%.... children in very revealing and/or skin tight clothing.

They use those things for a reason. It's what gets the most clicks. It's what causes the highest user engagement and retention. They know what all those comments say. They know why those videos are there. A lot of them aren't just videos. They're fucking ads. If you decide to go real deep into the rabbit whole you can start searching for the name of the girl and or their "modeling" or "gymnastics" company online. It won't take many tries from those videos to hit some result that sends you to Telegram or a Darknet page where you can send some form of digital currency in exchange for the real stuff for the models of your choice. (Note: This was when I stopped and tried to report it to the government before realizing the US government now supports child rape.)

Some of these girls have moved directly from videos like this to OnlyFans or similar sites. Some of them are known to have pictures from before they turned 18 that they started sending on those the day they did turn 18, after years of getting attention and drumming up followers online starting before they were even teenagers, and often selling CSAM on the down low.

I'd be shocked if they started these things, as little kids, because they decided to make the world's most fucked up early retirement plan. Adults were involved. No way in hell a good amount of the girls weren't trafficked, and that many aren't also available for in person visits from the very rich customers.

Meta caters to child rapists and pedophiles. They help them run their businesses. They have all the back end information to track the users and accounts, the AI to track the images of the girls, the "agency" names, all of it. But instead of doing their best to stop it because it's fucking awful they push that onto the feeds of people their algorithms say will like it so they make more money off of ads.

Meta, the company it was already open news that Zuckerberg wanted his AI to sex chat with children, because that meant they'd spend more time on his platform. After All the crazy harm the platforms are going to little girls was big news and a big court issue.

While making and marketing special glasses for pedophiles to use to record innocent children in public without anyone freaking out.

This might be the least ethical and most outright evil tech company there is. If they knew no one would report it and it would get them more users and money they'd absolutely keep sending CSAM out to people.

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Go try it. Use a VPN to block your IP, make a brand new account from a brand new email address and pop on and off a few times. I gaurantee that their shorts section will show you little girls in bikinis or skin tight leotards doing “gymnastics” that aren’t actually gymnastics. Click on one of them and read the insane comments from men very clearly saying they want to fuck these children.

I might actually try this, but it's worth noting that using a commercial VPN isn't exactly picking a pristine IP address at random, it's using an IP address that thousands of other people use for who-knows-what.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When I signed up I wasn't using a VPN, just the home internet that for the last 7 years had only been used by my mid 60s father who can barely use a computer and spends all of his free time playing a slot machine "game" where you do nothing but click the button over and over and it tells you how much you win or lose.

The only real reasons I suggested a VPN are to try to keep it from being associated with your actual existing information if you have any. But it's Meta. I imagine if you just logged out of any account you might have and made a new one it would go that same way.

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I didn't mean to cast doubt on what you observed, just to say that using a VPN might introduce an abnormal circumstance. I am curious to see for myself. I'm actually hoping to find a different result because man... That is dark.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I didn't think you were being doubtful, just trying to clarify that I hadn't been using one. This was around then the Epstein files stated coming out. Saw a post about how the DoJ released full zips and then started taking down files so I did my nerd duty to grab all the original full archives. Then I had to look, and the lots of talk about "modeling" agencies that definitely weren't that made me wonder about the creepy shit I'd seen with young "models" and "gymnasts" ... it's a shit rabbit hole, especially since nothing is being done about any of it.

Not just the kids, the things like Gabriela Rico Jiménez screaming in public claiming the Epstein & Friends were literally eating children trying to get help then vanishing the next day? It's a SFW video, just her yelling hysterically and sounding crazy in public in 2019. It sounds way less crazy in 2026. :/