cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/6795142
Mastodon, an alternative social network to Twitter, has a serious problem with child sexual abuse material according to researchers from Stanford University. In just two days, researchers found over 100 instances of known CSAM across over 325,000 posts on Mastodon. The researchers found hundreds of posts containing CSAM related hashtags and links pointing to CSAM trading and grooming of minors. One Mastodon server was even taken down for a period of time due to CSAM being posted. The researchers suggest that decentralized networks like Mastodon need to implement more robust moderation tools and reporting mechanisms to address the prevalence of CSAM.
Very sensationalist head line.
If you read the paper, it is mostly that one well known Japanese instance that according to Japanese laws is mostly legal.
Where did you find the actual study? The link in the above article leads to https://purl.stanford.edu/vb515nd6874 which has an abstract, but I can’t see the study.
It links to a PDF with the full study.
For more details and context see this thread by the study’s author: https://hachyderm.io/@det/110769470058276368
Going by the blurb posted, not the link. How are the demanding more robust moderation and reporting tools when obviously reporting something even took down the instance in question?
Who was the sponsor of this research, Zuck and Musk?
Fortunately it’s all on Japanese instances that many instances like Mastodon.social defederate from
