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Hunting the Online Sex Predators

27 February 2025

Dr Kaitlyn Regehr (UCL Information Studies) explains how harm is prioritised on social media algorithms. She said: “We found that over just one week of opening a new account, that the misogynistic content that was being fed to our hypothetical young men increased by four-fold.”

Watch: BBC ‘Hunting the Online Sex Predators’ (from 6 min, 33 sec)