Twitter's Child Porn problem finally brought to the fore, when big business gets involved.

It is has been known for years that Twitter had child pornography, but it took billion dollar corporations having their brands besmirched before anyone thought to really care.

Twitter is in trouble.

In an exclusive report by Reuters using information collected by cybersecurity group Ghost Data, more than thirty advertisers appeared on profile pages peddling links to ‘exploitative material’. Brands such as Disney, NBC Universal, and Coca-Cola were affected.

Other major advertisers have suspended their advertising campaigns on the site such as Dyson, Mazda, and Forbes.

Some of tweets include key words related to "rape" and "teens," and appeared alongside promoted tweets from corporate advertisers, the Reuters review found. In one example, a promoted tweet for shoe and accessories brand Cole Haan appeared next to a tweet in which a user said they were "trading teen/child" content.

"We're horrified," David Maddocks, brand president at Cole Haan, told Reuters after being notified that the company's ads appeared alongside such tweets. "Either Twitter is going to fix this, or we'll fix it by any means we can, which includes not buying Twitter ads."

In the world of Twitter where x-rated pornography is allowed out in the open and Minor Attracted Persons (MAPS) gather to discuss their perversions - while people are banned for wrong political views or using a wrong pronoun, this could be a game changer. Especially in light of the fact that the sale of this cesspit is going to litigation with Elon Musk.

Elon noticed:

Earlier this year Twitter had their eyes on launching a competitor to Only Fans. They already had the porn on their site; all they needed to do was corral that content into a viable business. They proposed giving their adult content creators the ability to sell Only Fans-style paid subscriptions, while they siphoned a piece for themselves off the top. The idea was scrapped once their ‘Red Team’ - which was assigned to test the scheme, reported back that Twitter could not safely allow adult creators to sell subscriptions as they were not policing and detecting child sexual exploitation effectively.

Twitter cannot accurately detect child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity at scale,” the Red Team concluded in April 2022. The company also lacked tools to verify that creators and consumers of adult content were of legal age, the team found. As a result, in May — weeks after Elon Musk agreed to purchase the company for $44 billion — the company delayed the project indefinitely. If Twitter couldn’t consistently remove child sexual exploitative content on the platform today, how would it even begin to monetize porn? 

In a February 2021 internal report from their Health Team :

“While the amount of CSE (Child Sexual Exploitation) online has grown exponentially, Twitter’s investment in technologies to detect and manage the growth has not,” begins a February 2021 report from the company’s Health team. “Teams are managing the workload using legacy tools with known broken windows. In short (and outlined at length below), [content moderators] are keeping the ship afloat with limited-to-no-support from Health.”

To top it all off, Twitter potentially faces billions of dollars in fines for not adequately policing Child Pornography.

While regulators haven’t publicly reacted to the report thus far, Twitter’s failures could run afoul of its commitments under a consent decree signed in 2011, which requires that Twitter “shall not misrepresent” the extent to which it protects the security and privacy of users, former FTC officials said. The alleged problems with porn moderation could qualify as undisclosed user privacy and security problems, according to the officials.

In an exclusive interview with The Post, former FTC Chairman William Kovacic called for the FTC, which he noted has a mission to protect consumers, to immediately investigate the allegations. He said Twitter could be hit with a fine in the range of $5 billion if it is found to have violated the consent decree by failing to protect underage users.

With Elon Musk trying to back out of the 44 billion dollar takeover deal, his lawyers are surely going to exploit all of this.

It is ironic that Twitter with all it’s moral posturing and banning people that use mean words, they have failed to properly police Child Porn images. I think it is pretty clear which offense most normal people would deem as the more egregious offence.

As an example, I was suspended from Twitter for a week for saying that a man getting robbed should have taken the thug out with a swift bullet to the head. Within two minutes, I was suspended for ‘violent content’. They ‘caught’ me immediately for an inane comment, but their own Health Team do not have the proper resources to detect child sex images being shared on their platform in real time?

Personally, I think they have the tools to detect these images and could work on cleaning up the filth on their little bird site, but choose not to. There is only a finite amount of resources and manpower within a company. These resources are allocated on a priority basis. Twitter’s priority since 2016, is to cleanse itself of what it (and the media) sees as it’s role in getting Trump elected. Getting rid of the people that they deem have unacceptable political views are the priority, thus; that is where they allocate their resources. The child molesters can wait until that is taken care of. That is precisely why a misused pronoun is a bannable offense, while MAPS can speak openly of their perversions without incident.

The truth is, right wingers were the heart and soul of the site. They had the snark, the humor, and the memes. Twitter was once a fun place and the one thing serious lefties can never be caught doing, is having fun. Politics has to be embedded everywhere and discussed at all times in their world - and it is always deadly serious. Literally everything has to be political, or have a left wing political message. ‘The message’ has to be in movies, TV shows, education, music, and sports. ‘The message’ was always there in some sense, but it used to be subtle, not any longer. Now everything is on the nose and in your face.

It is an indictment on society that only now is there so much concern about this material being propagated - when the bottom lines of billion dollar entities and their advertising dollars are affected.

It should be an interesting couple of months as this plays out. Wouldn’t it be nice to see Twitter get their buyout deal with Musk voided, lose all their advertisers, be forced to pay fines in the billions, and have to shut down?

I have a dream.