Teens Are Spamming Instagram to Fight an Apparent Network of Child Porn
#dropboxlinks has gone viral after hundreds of users posted memes about the tag’s concerning material.
Updated at 2:00 p.m. ET on January 8, 2018.
A hashtag war has been brewing on Instagram between users who appear to be trading child pornography and the memers intent on stopping them.
A network of users on the platform has allegedly been using the hashtag #dropboxlinks to find and share explicit photos of underage children. Once these users connect, they are thought to trade the illicit material via links shared through Instagram direct messages.
After uncovering this network over the weekend, hundreds of meme accounts launched a callout campaign on Monday in an effort to root out alleged child pornography on the platform. They shared PSAs about
