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Twitter is hardly alone in grappling with moderation failures related to child safety online. NBCUniversal said it has asked Twitter to remove the ads associated with the inappropriate content. “There is no place for this type of content online,” a spokesperson for carmaker Mazda USA said in a statement to Reuters, adding that in response, the company is now prohibiting its ads from appearing on Twitter profile pages.Ī Disney spokesperson called the content “reprehensible” and said they are “doubling-down on our efforts to ensure that the digital platforms on which we advertise, and the media buyers we use, strengthen their efforts to prevent such errors from recurring.”Ī spokesperson for Coca-Cola, which had a promoted tweet appear on an account tracked by the researchers, said it did not condone the material being associated with its brand and said “any breach of these standards is unacceptable and taken very seriously.” Twitter suspended over 1 million accounts last year for child exploitation material, according to the company’s transparency reports. He said he personally funded the research after receiving a tip about the topic. In an email to advertisers on Wednesday morning, ahead of the publication of this story, Twitter said it “discovered that ads were running within Profiles that were involved with publicly selling or soliciting child sexual abuse material.”Īndrea Stroppa, the founder of Ghost Data, said the study was an attempt to assess Twitter’s ability to remove the material.

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Reuters then on Monday shared the full list of more than 500 accounts after it was furnished by Ghost Data, which Twitter reviewed and permanently suspended for violating its rules, said Twitter’s Carswell on Tuesday. Reuters could not independently confirm the accuracy of Ghost Data’s finding in full, but reviewed dozens of accounts that remained online and were soliciting materials for “13+” and “young looking nudes.”Īfter Reuters shared a sample of 20 accounts with Twitter last Thursday, the company removed about 300 additional accounts from the network, but more than 100 others still remained on the site the following day, according to Ghost Data and a Reuters review. Twitter failed to remove more than 70 percent of the accounts during the study period, according to the group, which shared the findings exclusively with Reuters. Ghost Data identified the more than 500 accounts that openly shared or requested child sexual abuse material over a 20-day period this month.

Twitter declined to comment on the volume of adult content on the platform. But it permits adult content generally and is home to a thriving exchange of pornographic imagery, which comprises about 13 percent of all content on Twitter, according to an internal company document seen by Reuters. Like all social media platforms, Twitter bans depictions of child sexual exploitation, which are illegal in most countries. The emerging pushback from advertisers that are critical to Twitter’s revenue stream is reported here by Reuters for the first time.

Twitter’s challenges in identifying child abuse content were first reported in an investigation by tech news site The Verge in late August. She added that Twitter is working closely with its advertising clients and partners to investigate and take steps to prevent the situation from happening again.