The institute of data and democracy and politics which is presenting this event together with the International Committee on this information. Ill be your moderator and your timekeeper and i will continue this conversation with her distinguished panel and guest. If you are journalist, please feel free to put your question into the q a field, make sure that is addressed to everybody so we can see that and i will try to incorporate some of the questions to our panel in a bit. Social media platforms as we know and discussed our allowing actors to sell on illegal and overpriced medical equipment during the pandemic. That is one of many issues that we see across a social media platform. This one is not a new problem, social media platforms continue to allow the dangerous disinformation during the covid19 pandemic and in so doing they expose how dangerous and how irresponsible this kind of behavior can be and the role that they play in continuing to allow it. Rampant conspiracy theories make
Minutes. Welcome to our continuing conversation about the big social media platform in response to the disinformation campaigns around the covid19 pandemic, very serious situation where lives are literally in the balance. Im the director of the George Washington University School of Public Affairs affiliated with the institute of data and democracy and politics which is presenting this event together with the International Committee on this information. Ill be your moderator and your timekeeper and i will continue this conversation with her distinguished panel and guest. If you are journalist, please feel free to put your question into the q a field, make sure that is addressed to everybody so we can see that and i will try to incorporate some of the questions to our panel in a bit. Social media platforms as we know and discussed our allowing actors to sell on illegal and overpriced medical equipment during the pandemic. That is one of many issues that we see across a social media plat
To get him if he turns up. We dont have to wait long. One of stevies lookouts has spotted the man. Hello . Walking where . Get up here quickly, get up here quick. Where is he . At this point, you get this mad feeling, hearts pounding, ive got a massive adrenaline rush. Guess whos back . Back again . Trap is back tell a friend. Stevies had to be prepared to go to court since he went from being a fan of other hunters to being one himself this year. His evidence has already been used three times. But first, he has to gather that evidence. Im pretending to be a 14 year old boy. Interviewer how long was it before you told him you were 14 . I always wrap up within the first four messages. What i do is i screenshot the whole conversation as i do them. He starts off nice, how you doing today . And then he starts to move into more dirty chat. Its this chat log that stevie will later hand over to the police in its entirety. Its important hunters dont take the lead in any conversation and that th
Publicly, the Police Discourage it but weve discovered in the last two years, an almost sixfold increase in paedophile hunter evidence being used in court. We followed one hunter from southampton and just to warn you, you may find this a difficult watch. One sec. All right, mate, just walk up towards the park and im the alleyway in the woods. By the two nippers sat with the bike. All right, mate. In the bushes of a southampton park, we are following steven dewar. Hes a scaffolder by trade but his alter ego is trap, a paedophile hunter using social media to catch his prey. Hes been quite a fast one, ive only had him for about 48 hours. Hes turning up to meet a 14 year old boy. I mean, this ones pretty solid, hell be going nowhere, hes quite vile so im happy to get him if he turns up. We dont have to wait long. One of stevies lookouts has spotted the man. Hello . Walking where . Get up here quickly, get up here quick. Where is he . At this point, you get this mad feeling, hearts pounding
Members of the public who use social media to catch sex offenders. Publicly, the Police Discourage it but weve discovered in the last two years, an almost sixfold increase in paedophile hunter evidence being used in court. We followed one hunter from southampton and just to warn you, you may find this a difficult watch. One sec. All right, mate, just walk up towards the park and im the alleyway in the woods. By the two nippers sat with the bike. All right, mate. In the bushes of a southampton park, we are following steven dewar. Hes a scaffolder by trade but his alter ego is trap, a paedophile hunter using social media to catch his prey. Hes been quite a fast one, ive only had him for about 48 hours. Hes turning up to meet a 14 year old boy. I mean, this ones pretty solid, hell be going nowhere, hes quite vile so im happy to get him if he turns up. We dont have to wait long. One of stevies lookouts has spotted the man. Hello . Walking where . Get up here quickly, get up here quick. Whe