In an email to Motherboard, YouTube emphasized that animal abuse is not allowed on its platform and that it had taken down nine channels flagged by Lady Freethinker and Action for Primates. In one video, a group of men tie a monkey to a set of wooden beams and break its legs-by the end of the video it appears to be dead. Motherboard found multiple videos still up on YouTube depicting monkey abuse. In a screenshot of a since-deleted YouTube comment, a user writes “k, I’m curious about the community now,” to which another user replies: “Excellent! I can’t post about it here. Social networks can and must do better to stop animal torture for fun and profit.” “These monkeys’ suffering is real, and it is heartbreaking. “By allowing abusive channels to operate for months or even years, YouTube, Facebook, and other platforms enable animal cruelty fetishists to connect and escalate their cruel and illegal activities to sickening levels,” Jackel said. YouTube especially consistently fails to take down videos depicting animal cruelty, she said, even after they have been reported by her and others. Nina Jackel, the founder of Lady Freethinker, told Motherboard that members of the Telegram group actively recruit users from YouTube and Facebook. “Here’s a little taste of what I got from tonight,” one user wrote above an image of a baby monkey crucified on a tree. Screenshots from the Telegram group show users gleefully sharing the abuse. Forumotion later took down the platform late last month after it was reported by the two groups.Īfter being taken down, more than 30 users from the forum moved to a private Telegram group, which was also deleted after Action for Primates and Lady Freethinker went public with their findings.įorumotion and Telegram did not respond to Motherboard’s request for comment.
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In a phone call with Motherboard, a PayPal spokesperson said that the platform had taken down accounts involved in 2020, but did not provide further details.Īccording to Action for Primates and Lady Freethinker, the disturbing ring was first coordinated through a forum on Forumotion, a free forum hosting platform. The two advocacy groups claim the group pays the people who film and carry out the torture via PayPal. “And the cost may have to increase by increments of say 5 if death could possibly happen as a result of the buyers request.” Another post calls these “stress monkeys”: “If you could name it, make a limited number of requests for what you want done to it (with a few limits), and receive 10 exclusive videos for your own 'mini series' of your monkey with the option to have it killed in the final video, would you pay $130 for this? $150?” “The $20 videos would of course have to exclude things like death unless the subject is at the end of its usefulness,” another comment reads.
After that, it is $20 per video request.”
“You then own that monkey and get five requests included in the adoption fee.
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“You will pay the full price of the adopted monkey,” a user who appeared to be a moderator of the forum, wrote in one screenshot. Other screenshots show a baby monkey tied to a crucifix. Other videos show, among other things, monkeys being flayed, pierced, cut, beaten, and burned. In another, a monkey is kicked repeatedly in the face and then waterboarded. In one video, a monkey screeches as its finger is cut off. Users can choose between buying their own monkey or a “share” in one. Users are paying to “adopt” baby long-tailed macaques in Indonesia that are then subjected to brutal torture based on their requests. While some of the videos posted to Facebook are upsetting, the content on the forum (which has since been deleted by its host) and Telegram group is genuinely shocking and gruesome.
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