The issue focused on an article published online earlier this month by The Conversation that alleged there were "massive amounts of child porn online," and the report was picked up by sites such as Reddit, Facebook and Twitter before it was pulled.

But the story was not the only online controversy to come from the article: a video, posted online in October of last year by the site The Guardian, was widely shared online after its online readers were warned they could be vulnerable to online predators online.

The video,