A photographer accused of selling photos to pedophiles is allowed to use Instagram for months after he’s arrested. Forbes alerts Meta to more than a dozen accounts with over half a million followers sexualizing child and teenage models. Now the tech giant is coming under heavy fire for its policing of predators.

Jane, a 13-year-old living in Louisiana, decided she wanted to be a model. It was her mom, Sarah, who gave her ambitions a boost by posting images of her on Instagram. (Forbes has changed their names to protect their identities). It wasn’t long before Sarah was contacted by another mother whose child was also an aspiring model. She introduced Sarah to a man named Grant Durtschi, according to court documents filed by the Department of Justice earlier this year. The 48-year-old Durtschi had made a career out of photographing kids. Sometimes, he’d pay the parent or even the child up to $1,000 per shoot before he sold the photos to unknown buyers, the Department of Justice said.

To Jane’s stepfather, however, something was up. Federal investigators said he went to the FBI and told them that, in chats over the messaging app Telegram, Durtschi had openly admitted selling his photos to pedophiles.

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