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    1 month ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Before social media, those seeking the limelight might have got an agent and pursued acting or modelling, but now influencing is a way to cut out the middleman and reach audiences directly.

    “It’s almost like a contagion effect,” says Lyn Swanson Kennedy, who has been looking at kidfluencers in her role with Collective Shout, a group against the objectification of women and children.

    AFP Commander Helen Schneider from the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation says the risks increase once children start having public profiles and have people following them that they don’t know.

    Meta estimates about 100,000 children using Facebook and Instagram receive online sexual harassment each day, including “pictures of adult genitalia”, according to a US court case.

    Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, says there is a perverse incentive for social media companies, including Instagram, to keep catering to these male audiences.

    While Nina knows she can’t stop people stealing Jerome’s images, she is careful not to post topless photos of him to prevent them being misused.


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