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Eye Investigations

Season 5 · Episode 18

The Careless Machine: Exposing Instagram's Darkest Secret

0.026mJuly 3, 2026

BBC Eye has found Instagram in India is running paid ads promoting child sex abuse material. The ads use terms including “rape” and “child video” and link to content on the messaging app Telegram.

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Episode 1Into The Void: Putin's Foreign Fighters
Episode 2Hunting the Traffickers
Episode 3Wanted: The Interpol Files
Episode 4State of Fear
Episode 5Exposed: China's Spycam Porn
Episode 6Gen Z Under Fire
Episode 7Shadow War: Islamic State Group in Africa
Episode 8Eels: Billion Dollar Babies
Episode 9Target Tehran
Episode 10Life on the Spectrum
Episode 11Stolen Lives
Episode 12Abandoned: Searching for Soldier Dad
Episode 13Save Our Dogs
Episode 14Lebanon’s Black Wednesday
Episode 15Pray Raid Repeat
Episode 16Manosphere Messiahs
Episode 17Surviving Biafra
Episode 18The Careless Machine: Exposing Instagram's Darkest Secret
Episode 19Ukraine Survivors: Finding My Abusers
Episode 20Tundu Lissu: A Fight Too Far?
Episode 21Inside Iran: The People and The Power
Episode 22South Africa: Anatomy of a Cover Up: Episode 1
Episode 23The Taliban: Coming out of the Shadows
Episode 24South Africa: Anatomy of a Cover Up: Episode 2
Episode 25Nigeria: Faith, Fear and Fake News
Episode 26Catching My Teacher
Episode 27El Salvador: Security At Any Cost?
Episode 28Gaza's Ceasefire Summer
Episode 29Goodbye Raila
Episode 30Shadowmen: Russians working with Ukraine