Twitter, eBay, Instagram make ‘Dirty Dozen List’ of businesses profiting off sexual exploitation

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Twitter

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This illustration photo taken in Los Angeles on April 20, 2023, shows Elon Musk's blue tick next to his name on a smartphone.
This illustration photo taken in Los Angeles on April 20, 2023, shows Elon Musk's blue tick next to his name on a smartphone. | CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty Images

The popular social media website Twitter has made the list, with NCOSE stating that the recent takeover of the company by billionaire Elon Musk has not helped the site’s history of extensive sexual exploitation.

“In fact, most experts agree that Musk’s actions since purchasing Twitter have so far served to make the crime of child sexual exploitation worse,” said NCOSE.

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“Musk cut the Twitter Inc. team dedicated to handling child sexual exploitation to half its former size. He also stopped paying Thorn, the child protection agency which provided the software Twitter relies on to detect child sexual abuse material, and stopped working with Thorn to improve this technology.”

Twitter made the Dirty Dozen List in both 2021 and 2022 — before Musk took over — with NCOSE filing a lawsuit against the company in January 2021 on behalf of a teenager who claimed the site refused to remove sexually graphic videos of himself and another minor that sex traffickers posted.

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