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Why are Instagram searches for ‘Adam Driver Megalopolis’ blocked for CSAM?
Adam Driver and Megalopolis aren’t
When people search for “Adam driver Megalopolis ” on Instagram or Facebook right now, instead of seeing posts about Francis Ford Coppola’s latest film, they’re shown a warning, titled, “Child sexual abuse is illegal.” The issue isn’t new, either, as this nine-month-old Reddit post about searching for “Sega mega drive” on Facebook illustrates. Facebook and Instagram have blocked other innocuous-seeming terms, such as “chicken soup,” because distributors of child abuse materials use it as part of their coded language to evade detection on the platforms.
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