"Using 13-year-old profiles, researchers easily found a multitude of people openly selling drugs on Snapchat under usernames featuring obvious keywords such as coke, weed and molly. When researchers reported 40 such profiles to Snapchat, the company only removed 10 of them. The other 30 reports were rejected, they said. Snapchat said it had already proactively disabled 75% of the accounts reported and have now disabled all of them."
"Within just a few hours, their 13-year-old test profiles were recommended to add up to 70 suspected drug dealing profiles simply because one of their friends was connected to a drug dealing profile. Digitalt Ansvar's CEO, Ask Hesby Holm, said: As a child or young person, you therefore don't need to search for these profiles yourself; you can have them recommended directly by Snapchat. That is deeply problematic."
Digitalt Ansvar, a Danish research organisation, found that many Snapchat profiles openly sell drugs including cocaine, opioids and MDMA. Researchers used 13-year-old test accounts to locate profiles with usernames containing keywords like coke, weed and molly. Reporting 40 such profiles resulted in only 10 removals, with 30 reports initially rejected, though Snapchat later said it disabled most and then all accounts. Snapchat's recommendation system reportedly promoted suspected drug-dealer profiles to test accounts, recommending up to 70 dealers within hours because of a single friend connection. The organisation described the moderation and recommendation failures as deeply problematic for children.
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