“We are in complete agreement that any user behavior that sexualizes children is wrong and must be prevented,” Espinosa said. In a rare instance of bipartisanship in Washington, some Democrats and Republicans are coming together in a push for legislation to curb the sexual exploitation of minors online.
NBC News’ investigation comes as lawmakers express growing concern about children’s safety on the internet. Pinterest recommended images of little girls to an NBC News reporter, including a partly clothed child in a bathtub and another in bed. Users who identify themselves as teens when they sign up can set their accounts to receive direct messages from only users they follow. Pinterest users can create “secret boards” to keep certain content private, but “you can’t completely hide your active account,” according to Pinterest’s Help Center. Shortly after NBC News contacted him via direct message, all three of his boards containing underage girls vanished from his profile. He joined Pinterest last year after he was released on parole from prison, where he served 27 years for attempted murder, criminal records show. At least three of Victoria’s nearly 400 followers had also uploaded on their own public profile pages now-deleted footage of erect penises.Īnother user, with whom NBC News corresponded, and who pinned a video of Victoria doing a headstand in a board called “Young girl fashion,” was a 45-year-old Texas man. When Nathalia signed into Victoria’s Pinterest account in mid-February for the first time in a year, after being contacted by NBC News, her daughter’s inbox was brimming with messages including “cute ass” and “Mmmm.” The senders all looked to Nathalia like men, based on their usernames and profile pictures.
The company said it is also adding more options for flagging individual profiles, which can at present only be reported for “Spam” and “Inappropriate cover image” the new options will include the ability “to specifically call-out when content may involve a minor.” Pinterest said it will introduce new age-verification measures at a later date. PinterestĪfter NBC News asked about the sexually suggestive boards, Espinosa said Pinterest was planning to roll out a new feature next week enabling users to report boards, which is not currently possible.
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Men on Pinterest have created image boards full of little girls' pictures with titles such as "hot. Pinterest removed pages whose links NBC News shared as part of its requests for comment from the company. Spokesperson Crystal Espinosa said in a statement that Pinterest has “a strict zero-tolerance policy for any content that may exploit or endanger minors,” and noted that when sexually suggestive boards containing “otherwise innocuous or non-sexual images” are detected, the company immediately takes them down and bans the creators. Upon doing an initial search for images of kids, he said, his homepage “almost immediately” filled with images of children often dressed in similarly revealing attire, several of which had received sexually suggestive comments. Sauer conducted an independent review of the site at the request of NBC News, using a similar methodology. “This is material that is innocently posted and is now being used to drive sexual interest in children,” said Stephen Sauer of the nonprofit Canadian Centre for Child Protection, which works to stop child exploitation.
The children are typically seen bending over, doing the splits, sticking their tongues out and dancing in their bedrooms while dressed in outfits like pajama shorts, bathing suits and leotards. (The majority of the girls’ profiles were algorithmically surfaced by Pinterest itself during the course of the reporting.) The review showed that the site’s recommendation engine serves up photos and videos of visibly underage girls, including toddlers, in large quantities to a user seeking out this type of imagery. Over a one-month period, NBC News created a Pinterest account and reviewed hundreds of girls’ Pinterest accounts as well as their followers’ pages, many of whom appeared to be men. A search for the term "hot kids" on Pinterest surfaced algorithmically curated images of children in light attire.
The company is inadvertently curating this content for adults who seek it out and potentially exposing the girls to pedophiles, an NBC News investigation found. Yet Pinterest isn’t just allowing this to happen on its website - its recommendation engine is making it easy.
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