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The open posting of CSAM is “disturbingly prevalent”

To conduct its research, the Internet Observatory scanned the 25 most popular Mastodon instances for CSAM. Researchers also employed Google’s SafeSearch API to identify explicit images, along with PhotoDNA, a tool that helps find flagged CSAM. During its search, the team found 554 pieces of content that matched hashtags or keywords often used by child sexual abuse groups online, all of which were identified as explicit in the “highest confidence” by Google SafeSearch.

There were also 713 uses of the top 20 CSAM-related hashtags across the Fediverse on posts that contained media, as well as 1,217 text-only posts that pointed to “off-site CSAM trading or grooming of minors.” The study notes that the open posting of CSAM is “disturbingly prevalent.”

https://archive.ph/W4sXG >The open posting of CSAM is “disturbingly prevalent” > To conduct its research, the Internet Observatory scanned the 25 most popular Mastodon instances for CSAM. Researchers also employed Google’s SafeSearch API to identify explicit images, along with PhotoDNA, a tool that helps find flagged CSAM. During its search, the team found 554 pieces of content that matched hashtags or keywords often used by child sexual abuse groups online, all of which were identified as explicit in the “highest confidence” by Google SafeSearch. > There were also 713 uses of the top 20 CSAM-related hashtags across the Fediverse on posts that contained media, as well as 1,217 text-only posts that pointed to “off-site CSAM trading or grooming of minors.” The study notes that the open posting of CSAM is “disturbingly prevalent.”

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Mastodon was created by a liberal faggot who was so butthurt when Gab was using a fork of it.

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He got butthurt when almost anything he didn't like started using it. Pixiv used it for a while and he just about had an anthropomorphic cow. (I think they went to misskey eventually.)

I had an account on the original mastodon service that eugen started after he released the service. Made a comment about how it was interesting that certain conversations only had one side because the other instance was blocked. His answer was "Blocked for reasons."

Total twat. He can go fuck off and die on his hill.