A Northeastern professor opened a new Instagram account, set the age to 13. She didn't search for anything or follow anyone, just watched what Reels recommended. Within 3 minutes, Instagram was feeding her porn.
By 20 minutes, that was the whole feed. Within half an hour, one 13-year-old test account was getting videos of explicit sex acts, back to back.
The year Zuck wrote this email complaining about Snapchat, his own company had already run an internal study. It found teens on Instagram were seeing 3 times more banned nudity, over 4 times more bullying, and almost twice as much violent content as adults over 30. That report didn't become public until 2024.
The Northeastern team ran the exact same experiment on TikTok and Snapchat. Neither platform pushed porn at teen accounts anywhere close to what Instagram did. On TikTok, even when the fake 13-year-old actively searched for adult creators, liked their videos, and followed them, the feed still wouldn't serve that content back. A normal adult on TikTok was seeing less of this stuff than a 13-year-old on Instagram.
Court documents unsealed in November 2025 showed Meta's 'Accounts You May Follow' feature suggested 1.4 million possibly inappropriate adult users to teen accounts in a single day. Arturo Bejar, a former engineering director at Meta, testified that 1 in 8 Instagram teens gets an unwanted sexual advance every week.
In October 2022, around the same time as this email, Twitter told Reuters that 13 percent of everything on its platform was adult content. By June 2024, X made it an official policy. OnlyFans pulled in $7.22 billion from its users in 2024 and paid $5.80 billion of that out to creators. Every mainstream feed is chasing the same pile of money.
When Zuck asked in 2022 why nobody was looking harder at Snapchat for this, the honest answer was already sitting in his own company's files. On the exact thing he was complaining about, his own platform was doing it worse.
The FBI ran 3.4M warrantless searches in ONE YEAR because of FISA 702. Did they target murderers, rapists, human traffickers? No. They targeted protesters, journalists, campaign donors, Congress, and a judge. The 2024 RISAA quietly expanded who could be compelled to spy, to include landlords, cable installers, ANYONE the gov wants to hep conduct surveillance. You all are INSANE to think we are okay with this.
Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.
He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions).
Apple donated to Trump’s ballroom.
And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores after a demand from the DOJ.
Remember this.
🧵 THREAD
1/ Your daughter posts something online.
She is 19. In college. Trying to figure out what she believes. She shares a political opinion that an algorithm flags as problematic.
You do not see it happen. No one notifies you. No one tells her.
But 72 hours later, her bank account is frozen. Her student loans are suspended. Her digital ID shows a compliance violation.
And there is nothing you can do to protect her.
When Sam Altman was reinstated at OpenAI after an outside law firm investigation, no report about what was found was ever released. That’s because none was written.
More in my full @NewYorker investigation: https://t.co/HEPHN4E54P
@PaulHardrick2@kevinblue345 If he was right, he wouldn't have to try and fix the system to benefit certain people and at the same time, disenfranchise others.
Musk was born in South Africa during the racist apartheid era, and it's clear he has the same sordid attitudes as those colonisers.
Colorado law: If you build AI that makes decisions about people’s housing, jobs, or healthcare, AI must be fair. Elon Musk filed a federal lawsuit to block it. His argument? Forcing AI not to discriminate violates his First Amendment rights; because it is a political opinion
WARREN: That's not my question. Are you refusing to tell us if you have investments in vehicles set up by Jeffrey Epstein?
KEVIN WARSH: Those assets will be sold if I'm confirmed
Republicans literally have an out, and they refuse to take it. You know why? Because they know what that’d mean for red states like Alabama and Louisiana. So until gerrymandering is banned in ALL 50 states, both red and blue, CRY HARDER!!!!!!!
Investigative journalist Whitney Webb says that the synchronised global effort to roll out digital ID is driven by its critical role in implementing Agenda 2030.
"CBDCs and digital IDs are meant to go together... Without digital IDs, the CBDC digital finance system cannot exist."
"They have to know who you are. And so they want to have your wallet tied to a digital ID, and have that digital ID be mapped to your physical ID through the biometric data collection."
"If you don't participate in digital ID, you won't have a legally recognised identity, you won't have rights, you won't be able to access services without it."
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Retired CIA analyst Larry Johnson: Trump tried to used nuclear codes against Iran during White House “emergency meeting” on Saturday. Trump was halted by Air Force General Dan Cain who used military privilege to stop him.
Sam Altman once revealed that he and his tech buddies foresaw AI bringing about societal collapse
If such a crisis occurs, Peter Thiel has offered him space in his New Zealand bunker
Tech warlords prep for the fallout of their doomsday agenda, while humanity pays the cost
With a single stroke of a pen, Donald Trump pardoned roughly 1,500 people who violently stormed the United States Capitol on the first day of his second term in office. He pardoned without exception, without condition, and without any regard for what they had done or who they had hurt.
Most weren’t peaceful protesters. Some had already been found guilty by a jury. Trump pardoned them anyway because they carried out his bidding, and he wanted them to know it. And some of them went on to hurt people again, including children, after they were set free.
Welcome to Episode 2 of The Pardon Papers, my series exposing how this President has weaponized the pardon power for his own political ends.
Nebraska's legislature adjourned Friday without passing a single one of the 7 anti-trans bills introduced this session. A joint record for anti-trans bills in one session, and every one of them died. In a deep-red state. The deciding vote was a Republican.
Former CIA Officer John Kiriakou:
“The Israelis if they want to kill you, They'll blow up the entire city block where you live, They'll kill a thousand people Just to get you and they don't care..”
Famous author Wajahat Ali completely destroys Pastor Doug Wilson on live TV. He exposes the Pentagon's religious extremism, calling out Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as a cosplay crusader getting innocent civilians killed in an illegal and unwinnable war in Iran.
NEW: Flight data reveals that the LAPD's "Drone as First Responder" program—sold to the public as a public safety measure—is in fact being used to spy on anti-ICE/anti-Trump protests in Los Angeles.
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