'Vast Pedophile Network' Discovered on Instagram - Seemingly Harmless Emojis Used as Sick Code

In yet another sobering reminder that children should be kept far away from most forms of social media, a damning new report has uncovered a “vast pedophile network” on the imminently popular Instagram platform. For the unfamiliar, Instagram — owned by Facebook parent Meta — is a more visual-oriented form of social media (whereas Twitter originally focused on text or “140 characters,” and Facebook is somewhere in between). Communication is largely relegated to the messaging under photos, and that’s where The Wall Street Journal learned that a lot of this...