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Instagram To Telegram: Child Sex Abuse Videos Sold For Rs 40

July 12, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

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Social media platforms are rife with child sex abuse content. Instagram accounts that post sexualised images of Indian children lead viewers to Telegram channels, where people sell child sex abuse content for anywhere between Rs 40 to- Rs 5,000. Read on!

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Instagram To Telegram: Predators Are Selling Child Sex Abuse Videos For Rs 40

🔖 India ranks the highest in creating and consuming child sex abuse material (CSAM), with over 1.9 million reported cases.

  • Social media platforms, especially Instagram and Telegram, are hotspots for distributing CSAM, with content sold for as little as Rs 40.

  • Undercover investigation reveals a thriving trade of CSAM on Telegram, with sellers offering thousands of videos and "child rape combo packages."

  • Efforts to combat CSAM are hindered by technical challenges and the reluctance of victims to come forward, leading to low prosecution rates.

Read Adrija Bose’s story.

Editor’s note: The story contains references of child abuse videos.

Identify Fake News, Lobby For A Political Party: How Well Does Meta AI Hold Up?

🔖 Meta rolls out AI Chatbot across major platforms, but can it differentiate between fake and verified news?

  • Built on its latest LLM, Llama 3, Meta AI is touted to perform complex reasoning, follow instructions, visualise ideas, and solve nuanced problems.

  • Despite policy restrictions, Meta AI was used for political messaging and it yielded results, violating its own guidelines.

  • The chatbot failed tests in distinguishing fake news, generating false narratives when prompted to create news stories based on fabricated claims.

Read Hera Rizwan’s story.

Join us on 18 July at 6 pm IST for an online roundtable discussion on Tripura in the north-eastern region of India.  Listen to a distinguished panel of experts from various fields wherein they address commonly held misunderstandings and knowledge deficit about the state.

🚫 Fake News You Almost Fell For

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