Twitter has suspended an account belonging to a user who created a “youth-attracted person” flag to celebrate and support pedophiles, as Elon Musk declared that such behavior would not be tolerated on the platform.
A post from the account allegedly behind the flag reads: “Happy Alice Day, to those who celebrate! I figured, why not use today to unveil the YAP (youth-attracted person) pride flag I designed almost a year ago?”
The flag featured shades of blue, yellow, pink, and white bars. The original post was retweeted 56 times and garnered 947,000 views.
“Elon Musk suspended the person who made a pedophilia flag. Well done, Elon,” Dr. Loupis wrote of the original account, to which Musk, who banned the account within 24 hours, responded, “Not tolerated on this platform.”
Twitter ‘Aggressively’ Banning Accounts Linked to Abuse
Under his helm, the site has updated how it detects content related to such material to make it more efficient and aggressive, according to cyber security and data analyst Andrea Stroppa.According to Stroppa—who at the time was working as an independent researcher on Twitter’s Trust and Safety team—Twitter took down 44,000 “suspicious accounts,” of which over 1,300 had attempted to avoid detection by using “codewords and text in images to communicate” between Dec. 3 and Dec. 4 alone.
After Musk’s takeover, the platform also established dedicated teams to investigate accounts that violate child sexual exploitation policy on a daily basis, Stroppa said.
The Epoch Times has contacted Twitter for comment.
If you’re a victim of child sexual exploitation on the internet or are aware of child sexual abuse material, sex trafficking, or other crimes against children online, you can make a report at CyberTipline.org or call NCMEC at 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678).
