Bluesky pedophilia controversy

While claims about "pedophilia" running rampant on Bluesky predated the Nov 2024 controversy, these screens document a series of fake (approx 4) and real (approx 16) accounts cited by the gimmick account, Libs of Bluesky around that time

The Bluesky pedophilia controversy was a series of controversies in 2024, in which the online social network Bluesky was accused of being a "safe space" for "pedophiles" and child pornography. These claims intensified in late November, in the wake of Donald Trump's second election victory, when liberal and left-leaning users of Elon Musk's X.com started leaving said site for Bluesky, a site more closely associated with Liberal political orthodoxy via its founder, Jack Dorsey. Liberal users of the network were accused by some media of sharing copious amounts of child pornography and then pushing zoophilia, polyamory and pedophilia as social identities. A bizarre pizzagate-like conspiracy theory involving the childlove logo and that of Bluesky had previously circulated, appearing to go no further than the fact that both logos represented butterflies.

A gimmick account on X.com named Libs of Bluesky (in reference to the better known Libs of TikTok) was instrumental in scandalizing the venture in late November, posting up to 20 statuses referring to MAPs. One such status (misrepresenting what appeared a fake right wing troll account) gained 2.5M impressions, and the series in total attracted around 5M. Other targets included Mu, and the administrator of NNIA via a "panda-eyes sock-puppet" he operated on Bluesky, and claimed to have successfully appealed the suspension of on two occasions during better times.

Users of Reddit subsequently made the false claim that all MAP-related activity on Bluesky was a hoax perpetuated by right-wing trolls.