How innocent photos of children have been exploited on Twitter
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-38103791
They begin as innocuous selfies or pictures taken by friends
or family members. But in the eyes of a small cohort of warped
Twitter users, they become something else entirely. "The
pictures are usually young girls in their school uniform or a
swimsuit," says Joseph Cox, a freelance journalist writing for
Motherboard, part of Vice News. "Some have been taken by the
girls themselves. It's not clear whether they've then sent
them to a boyfriend who's uploaded them... others appear to
have been ripped from their social media sites." Cox's
investigation into this underground world started with a
search of one hashtag which threw up one of the otherwise
innocent-looking photos.
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