Facebook and Instagram accused of creating a “marketplace” for child predators in new lawsuit

autotldr Bot , 7 months ago

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Meta and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, allowed Facebook and Instagram to become a “marketplace for predators in search of children,” a new lawsuit from the New Mexico attorney general alleges, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

As outlined in the complaint, the New Mexico attorney general’s office conducted an investigation that involved creating test profiles on Facebook and Instagram that appeared to be teenagers or preteens.

Most recently, the outlet published an investigation into how Facebook appears to enable and promote groups dedicated to sharing child sexual abuse material.

“We use sophisticated technology, hire child safety experts, report content to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and share information and tools with other companies and law enforcement, including state attorneys general, to help root out predators,” a Meta spokesperson told the Journal.

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez claims Meta is downplaying the dangers children face on the platform and told the Journal that the features of Facebook and Instagram “are not engineered in a way to prevent this matchmaking from likely predators and likely victims.”

Zuckerberg and the CEOs of several other major social platforms are also set to testify before the US Senate in January “about their failure to protect children online.”

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