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Pedophiles finally being kicked off of Twitter – HotAir

The Establishment™ has been expending enormous effort to discredit Elon Musk and work cleaning up Twitter and removing the bias.

Many have even declared their resolve to leave Twitter because they cannot coexist with the evil Right Wingers who have been let back on the platform. What they won’t tell you is that they were perfectly fine sharing the platform not only with evildoers like the Taliban and the Iranian government, but also with a flourishing trade in child pornography.

Under Elon Musk that has all changed. For the first time in Twitter’s history the company is actually on a crusade to eliminate the trade and kick the child molesters off the platform.

Musk has instituted a zero tolerance policy for child exploitation, and the effort has been achieving his goal. Given the prevalence of pedophilia among a large segment of our Elite™, perhaps this is what bothers them so much.

A cyber security and data analyst funding research into Twitter’s alleged child sexual abuse material (CSAM) problem said Saturday that the platform has nearly doubled its daily suspension rate on accounts that share exploitative content containing child pornography.

Andrea Stoppa, founder of cybersecurity group Ghost Data, had personally funded research into the issue earlier this year after receiving a tip about the problem’s severity. The report allegedly found more than 500 accounts soliciting child sex abuse material that appeared alongside or on profile pages of at least 30 major advertisers’ Twitter accounts, which led some of those companies to pull or pause their ad services from the social media platform.

Following his initial analysis last September, Stroppa and Twitter’s Trust and Safety team said the social media platform had updated a mechanism to detect past and present content related to CSAM at a much “faster, more efficient, and more aggressive” speed, which has approximately doubled the daily suspension rate of accounts promoting the egregious material.

“No mercy for those who are involved in these illegal activities,” Stroppa said, adding Twitter will find such “illicit” content and act accordingly despite when it had been published.

Child pornography and other sexual abuse material on Twitter has been documented on the platform for well over the last decade. Just last year, 86,666 CSAM reports were made to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Nearly 87,000 reports of child sexual exploitation on Twitter in just one year. And the company did little to deal with the problem. Until Musk.

I have written about this before, and it was an open secret that Twitter was a major platform used by pedophiles to exchange illegal content. None of this bothered all those Leftists and MSM folks decrying Musk’s rebalancing the ideological mix on the platform. They gleefully tweeted away without compunction, and never pressured the company to deal with the issue.

Even today, after Musk’s successful efforts to kick the pedos off the platform they haven’t a good word to say about Musk, continuing their crusade to destroy Twitter and get it banned by the government and the EU. They are pressuring Apple and Google to ban the app in their stores, slandering Musk as a White Supremacist, and attacking Matt Taibbi for writing about the censorship that was rife on the platform.

Not a word about child sexual exploitation under the old regime, nor about Musk’s successful suppression of the practice now that he runs the company.

When Elon Musk purchased the platform in October, he inherited two major lawsuits involving two minor survivors that were allegedly exploited on that platform. One such case garnered 160,000 views and over 2000 retweets that Twitter allegedly refused to remove the content despite the minor survivor begging for its removal while on the brink of suicide.

It wasn’t until the Department of Homeland Security stepped in that the survivor’s sexual abuse material was removed.

Stroppa said within a 24-hour time frame, the platform ramped up its efforts to crack down on “suspicious accounts,” which led to the removal of 44,000 handles and 1,300 profiles that used strategic communication methods to bypass detection using codewords and text in images — many of which came from networks with Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking users that share child sexual exploitation content.

“Zero tolerance,” Stroppa said, adding Twitter has involved independent experts in increasing its ability to protect children’s safety.

Eliza Bleu, a survivor advocate of those affected by human trafficking, has been speaking out against Twitter’s child pornography problem since shortly after joining the platform in 2019.

Bleu told The Daily Wire she was “floored” after seeing the latest report of how many profiles were removed.

“I don’t think I thought any of this stuff was possible at the scale that they’re removing it now,” Bleu said. “The only thing is they’re just gonna have to keep it up, keep innovating, and continue to make it their top priority.”

“I feel like I’m witnessing a miracle,” she added.

It’s not a miracle. It’s actually caring enough to put in the effort. Child sexual predation was just fine for the folks who ran Twitter before Musk bought Twitter. And, apparently, just fine with the folks who complain so bitterly about Musk allowing free political speech. They literally cared more about silencing Republicans than protecting children.

Reporters like Ben Collins, who apparently thought that pedophiles exchanging pedophilic images was just fine, but a former president being allowed to speak was horrifying.

Where is the reporting on Musk’s efforts to kick the bastards off Twitter? It doesn’t exist. Instead we see constant attacks on Musk because he took the Left’s favorite toy away from them.

For context, one previous report showed the platform removed as many as approximately 57,000 profiles in one month before Musk’s acquisition compared to the 44,000 removed in a single day.

Musk thanked Bleu and Stroppa during the Twitter space, which Bleu told The Daily Wire she was “grateful to be acknowledged” for her years of work advocating for survivors.

“I think we’ve actually had like a really good case of crowdsourcing of having people on Twitter actually help solve the child exploitation stuff,” Musk said Saturday. “It is true — yes — Twitter has done more to stop child exploitation in the last month than probably the last ten years.”

“That’s insane,” Musk added. “It kind of blows my mind, frankly, and we’re gonna keep doing it — It’s always gonna be number one. I mean, it’s like kids can’t defend themselves —so, we must.”

The exchange of pedophilic material was known. Was reported by journalists who actually cared about the issue. Yet the vast majority of MSM reporters remained silent, because Twitter was just too good an ally in promoting their preferred Narrative™.

Last week I wrote a piece about the Elite’s™ acceptance of pedophiles amongst their midst. The Roman Polanskis, Jeffrey Epsteins and his still anonymous clients. They just don’t care. The Balenciaga scandal isn’t an aberration; it is simply the way it is.

Musk is changing that too, and it infuriates the Elite™. They see him as a traitor to their class.

And they are determined to destroy him for that.

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