Twitter is currently in the midst of a lawsuit which alleges that the social media platform refused to take down pornographic pictures and videos of a child as it “didn’t find a violation” within their policy.
The lawsuit was filed earlier last week and sees the mother of the victim accuse the social media giant of making money off of the clips which show the child, who was a victim of sex trafficking, explicitly.
The video received at least 167,000 views and over 2,000 retweets.
The lawsuit says, “Plaintiff John Doe was solicited and recruited for sex trafficking as a minor. After John Doe escaped from the manipulation, child sexual abuse material depicting John Doe was disseminated on Twitter.”
“When Twitter was first alerted to this fact and John Doe’s age, Twitter refused to remove the illegal material and instead continued to promote and profit from the sexual abuse of this child.”
On submitting a report, the following message was sent back from Twitter according to the lawsuit:
“Thanks for reaching out. We’ve reviewed the content, and didn’t find a violation of our policies, so no action will be taken at this time.”
“If you believe there’s a potential copyright infringement, please start a new report. If the content is hosted on a third-party website, you’ll need to contact that website’s support team to report it. Your safety is the most important thing, and if you believe you are in danger, we encourage you to contact your local authorities.”
A spokesperson for Twitter told Fox News, “Twitter has zero-tolerance for any material that features or promotes child sexual exploitation. We aggressively fight online child sexual abuse and have heavily invested in technology and tools to enforce our policy.”
“Our dedicated teams work to stay ahead of bad-faith actors and to ensure we’re doing everything we can to remove content, facilitate investigations, and protect minors from harm — both on and offline.”