It\u2019s \u2018shocking\u2019 that authorities did nothing in response to an expose by the Wall Street Journal, the former Fox News host says<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The US government\u2019s failure to respond to the revelation that Instagram is hosting a vast network of pedophilia accounts indicates that the taboo surrounding child molestation in American society is about to crumble, former Fox New star Tucker Carlson has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAmerican society… is governed by taboos\u201d<\/em> and taking charge of them is a way of controlling what people think, Carlson argued in the second episode of his new show on Twitter, which came out on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Taboos in the US have been changing rapidly in recent years, and \u201cthis is not happening organically. What we\u2019re allowed to dislike is being dictated to us from above, sometimes by force,\u201d<\/em> he claimed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Carlson, who was taken off air by Fox News in April, described child molestation as \u201cthe greatest taboo of all,\u201d<\/em> but warned it was \u201cteetering on the edge of acceptability.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA generation ago, talking to someone else\u2019s children about sex was widely considered a ground for a thrashing; touching them sexually was effectively a death penalty offense,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But now \u201cpeople who run our country don\u2019t see child molesters as the worst among us. It\u2019s never been more obvious than yesterday when the Wall Street Journal ran a long expose about \u2018kiddy porn\u2019 on Instagram,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In its report on Wednesday, the WSJ claimed that the popular social media platform, which is owned by Meta, hosts a large network of accounts openly devoted to the commission and purchase of underage-sex content. It has capitalized on Instagram algorithms that help connect pedophiles to distributors of child porn, the article claimed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The story is \u201caccurate\u201d<\/em> as nobody at Instagram, nor Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has denied it, Carlson argued. \u201cIt was all pretty shocking. But not as shocking as what happened next, which was effectively nothing at all,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was revealed that \u201cone of the world\u2019s most influential companies was promoting pedophilia and nobody in power did anything about it. The Justice Department didn\u2019t announce an investigation; the Congress didn\u2019t schedule hearings; the guy who runs Instagram, Adam Mosseri, still has his job,\u201d<\/em> said the host.<\/p>\n\n\n\n