Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis (QFR Responses)

QuestionWhy could outside academic researchers detect Instagram's pedophile networks when Meta could not, and does Instagram still connect/promote such networks today?

ResponseMeta describes a task force created after the WSJ report, technology to prevent suspicious adults from being recommended to teens, Group/Page removal figures, and its Lantern industry-sharing program, without directly explaining why outside researchers found the networks first.