- A social media service started by former President Trump's associates is host to child pornography.
- That's according to a new report from Stanford's Internet Observatory on the platform, called Gettr.
- The service "does not implement industry standard" moderation tools, which filter out child pornography.
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A pro-Trump social media service has a major problem, according to a new report: It's not filtering out known images of child pornography.
Gettr, which was started by former Trump aide and spokesperson Jason Miller, has "very few — if any — mechanisms for detecting spam, violent content, pornography, and child exploitation imagery," a new study by the Stanford Internet Observatory said.
The study found 16 examples of images on Gettr that were flagged by PhotoDNA, a photo-moderation database, as "child exploitation imagery."
The PhotoDNA database is considered an industry standard tool for frontline defense against users uploading images of child pornography.
When Stanford's Internet Observatory uploaded benign test images from the PhotoDNA database to Gettr, they weren't flagged before being posted — which likely means the database isn't being used at all on the service. Instead, it appears to be relying solely on...
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