MORE than “one million” hardcore porn videos are hidden on the popular photo-sharing site Instagram.
With users as young as 13, parents will be mortified to discover their children could come across graphic pornographic content, The Sun reports.
Although the website has a strict no-nudity policy, it seems that users are evading moderators by using long Arabic hashtags to upload uncensored porn.
Tech blogger Jed Ismael first stumbled across this when searching with a hashtag that means “movies” in Arabic and says he has discovered more than one million sex films on the website.
He wrote on his blog: “Instagram has banned certain English explicit hashtags from being showed in search.
“Yet users seem to find a way around the policy, by using non English terms or hashtags.”
A quick search revealed that explicit content is easily found and can be viewed without the need for age verification.
In its community guidelines, Instagram states: “We know that there are times when people might want to share nude images that are artistic or creative in nature, but for a variety of reasons, we don’t allow nudity on Instagram.
“This includes photos, videos, and some digitally-created content that show sexual intercourse, genitals, and close-ups of fully-nude buttocks.
“It also includes some photos of female nipples, but photos of post-mastectomy scarring and women actively breastfeeding are allowed. Nudity in photos of paintings and sculptures is OK, too.”
Instagram told the Daily Star it is currently investigating the issue.
This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission.
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