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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Mary-Ann Russon

Mastodon: Twitter rival used to host child sexual abuse content, study finds

Twitter / X rival social media platform Mastodon is now being used by some users to trade child sexual abuse materials (CSAM), seemingly unnoticed and unpoliced, a new study by Stanford University in the US has found.

This comes following the news on Sunday that Twitter would be rebranding as X and losing its familiar blue Larry the bird logo, which saw more users threaten to delete their accounts.

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