Lawsuit: Facebook and Instagram Enabled Child Trafficking

Facebook and Instagram display s*xual content to minors and serve as a “marketplace for predators in search of children,” according to a lawsuit brought against the platforms’ parent company, Meta, by the state of New Mexico’s attorney general.

Filed on Tuesday, the suit alleges that underage users of both platforms – who can sign up without age verification – are shown adverts linking to adult p*rn sites and directed to accounts posting “images of s*xual intercourse and s*xualized images of minors,” even when the child has expressed no interest in this content.

Join me as we go over the lawsuit.

Links:
https://archive.is/Ulnqr
https://www.nmag.gov/attorney-general-raul-torrez-files-lawsuit-against-meta-platforms-and-mark-zuckerberg-to-protect-children-from-sexual-abuse-and-human-trafficking/
https://www.nmag.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2023-12-05-NM-v.-Meta-et-al.-COMPLAINT-REDACTED.pdf
https://about.fb.com/news/2023/12/default-end-to-end-encryption-on-messenger/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/04/facebook-content-moderators-ptsd-psychological-dangers

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