Days after Network Contagion Research Institute highlighted 'pervasive and dangerous' financial sextortion activities on Wizz, the app has been removed from the Apple App Store and Google Play.
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🔎Our Network Contagion Research Institute research analysed 37,000 ‘self-injury’ search result links and found:

▪️ 1 in 5 results glorify or instruct harmful behaviour
▪️ Image searches carry extra risk
▪️ Cryptic search terms reveal harmful content
▪️ 1 in 5 results link to content signposting help

See NCRI's latest report featured on NBC on financial sextortion, considered the most rapidly growing crime targeting children in North America and Australia.

A majority of this activity is linked to cybercriminal group in West Africa who target minors on Instagram, Snapchat,…

We have a study coming out on this matter very shortly that highlights the scale of this issue, the main threat actors, tactics, how social media platforms enable this crime, and how AI will make it much much worse. Stay tuned.

The hashtag ‘StandWithKashmir’ has ~229 MILLION posts across TikTok, while Instagram only has ~346,000.

To put this in perspective, the usage of 'StandWithKashmir' on TikTok surpasses the peak popularity of #BLM , which reached 50 million tweets.

Is this organic? Thread

NYTimes covers Network Contagion Research Institute report suggesting that China manipulates TikTok to align w/its interests. 'For popular pop culture and politics terms like #TaylorSwift and #Trump , the researchers found roughly two Instagram posts for every one on TikTok, the report said. But that ratio…