{"id":236696,"date":"2024-07-27T13:59:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T08:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=236696"},"modified":"2024-07-30T00:09:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T18:39:01","slug":"viral-video-of-sexual-act-demonstrates-failure-of-instagrams-content-moderation-mechanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/viral-video-of-sexual-act-demonstrates-failure-of-instagrams-content-moderation-mechanism\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral video of sexual act demonstrates failure of Instagram’s content moderation mechanism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trigger Warning:<\/b> Descriptions of Sexual Activity<\/strong><\/p>\n

An explicit video of two individuals indulging in penetrative sex has gone viral on Instagram and X.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The authors of this story came across the reel while scrolling through Instagram last week. It shows two young Indian men having a drink. Initially, the video appears typical, casually shot, and not intended to promote any product or service. <\/span>However, as the video progresses, it shows one of them, whose face is blurred throughout the clip, losing or partially losing consciousness and the other, whose face is visible, taking the incapacitated man to another room and engaging in penetrative sex. The video graphically displays their naked bodies and genitalia during the act, throughout which the ‘victim’ is unconscious or barely conscious. The clip includes multiple cuts, which suggests that it has been edited to resemble a typical pornographic video.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are a few screenshots from the initial part of the video:<\/p>\n

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According to Section 63<\/a> of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita, even consensual sexual intercourse is considered rape if the consent is taken when one is intoxicated or incapacitated. It is also to be noted at the outset that one can not confirm whether the clip in question is a staged video or whether it shows an actual commission of a rape. Upon inspection, however, we found that the man whose face was visible in the clip was a creator\/adult entertainer holding an account on the subscription-based content-sharing platform ‘OnlyFans’.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is of deep concern from the point of view of platform accountability is that the video, which flouts Instagram’s community guidelines on several counts, was live for at least six days amassing nearly 7 million views and 2.4 million shares. Even more worrying is that it was uploaded three times by the same user without being flagged by the automatic moderation algorithm. While these have been removed, the video continues to be live on Instagram, uploaded by other users.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>community guidelines<\/span><\/a> of Instagram state, \u201cWe know that there are times when people might want to share nude images that are artistic or creative in nature, but for a variety of reasons, we don\u2019t allow nudity on Instagram. This includes photos, videos and some digitally-created content that show sexual intercourse, genitals and close-ups of fully nude buttocks.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

We reported the video using Instagram\u2019s in-app reporting mechanism and it took the platform <\/span>six days to remove all three videos. <\/span><\/p>\n