In what appears to be a filmed, staged rescue posted to YouTube, a snake is shown coiled around a moaning puppy while a man rushes to help, untangling the reptile from the shaken dog. In another video, someone picks up a dog by its hind legs, swinging it hammer throw-style and slamming it on the ground.
These are just some examples of more than 5,000 videos considered to show animal cruelty across YouTube, Facebook and TikTok, according to a new report published late last month intended to raise awareness about the problem and to call on companies to take action.
The posts were collected from July 2020 to August this year by a working group of the Asia for Animals Coalition, which consists of 22 animal welfare organizations and is supported by hundreds more around the world. Coordinator Sarah Grant said the report developed organically “as it became obvious [that] the sheer volume of cruelty and scale of suffering we were seeing needed to be documented.”
The group found that the videos fall into one of four categories of animal cruelty, differentiated by their ambiguity and intentionality. Common themes include using animals as entertainment and fake animal rescues, where animals are put in harm’s way to be “saved” by humans. There are also cases of deliberate animal torture—in one video, a monkey was forced to stand up straight against a wall as punishment for breaking a bowl.
The videos identified as containing animal cruelty have racked up a total of over 5 billion...
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