Instagram, through its system of fostering communities with sets of narrow interests, has helped guide users to illegal child sex content. Instagram's parent company Meta has acknowledged the problem and vows to improve internal controls.

WSJ social-media reporter Jeff Horwitz joins host Zoe Thomas to explain what makes Instagram different from other platforms when it comes to promoting this material.

0:00 Inappropriate hashtags
1:40 Instagram helps connect and promote these accounts
2:35 How Instagram recommends this content
4:18 What Meta has said about these issues
5:28 What university investigators said about the findings
6:35 How other social media platforms handle similar issues

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