Internal documents reveal that Meta estimates that approximately 100,000 children who use Instagram and Facebook are subjected to sexual harassment such as being sent photos of their genitals every day.
Based on internal documents submitted by Meta as court documents, Meta estimates that approximately 100,000 children who use Facebook and Instagram are subjected to sexual harassment every day, including being 'sent pictures of adult genitals.' It became clear that
Meta documents show 100,000 children sexually harassed daily on its platforms | Meta | The Guardian
The Attorney General's Office in New Mexico, USA, filed a lawsuit on December 5, 2023, alleging that ``Meta's social network has become a place for child sexual exploitation.'' New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez accused Meta's platform of 'enabling adults to find, message, and tame children.' In response, Meta denied Attorney General Torrez's claims, saying, ``The use of selective quotations and excerpted documents misrepresents our work.''
In response to this lawsuit, Meta submitted presentation materials by Meta employees and documents summarizing communications between employees to the New Mexico Attorney General's Office. 'We want to provide a safe and age-appropriate online experience for teens, and we have more than 30 tools to support them and their parents,' the statement added. We have been working on this problem for 10 years and are hiring people who have dedicated their careers to keeping young people safe online.''
However, the documents submitted by Meta reveal a number of sloppy responses by Meta.
'Internal presentation materials on child safety created in 2021' state that 'Instagram lacks investment in restricting sexual expression to minors and ``comments like this have become more prominent in recent years.''
In addition, during an internal communication held in July 2020, one employee asked, ``What specifically are you doing to prevent
In addition, although unrelated to this document, a former Meta employee testified during a U.S. Congressional hearing held at the end of November 2023 that his own daughter had been sexually seduced through Instagram. did. The former employee reportedly reported the problem to his superiors to resolve the issue, but was ignored.
In addition, documents detailing the ``sexual harassment that the 12-year-old daughter of an Apple executive suffered through Instagram's direct message function in 2020'' has also been submitted to the Attorney General's Office. The document states that ``Apple was so furious that it threatened to remove the (Meta) app from the App Store.''
The foreign media outlet The Guardian commented on the lawsuit, saying, ``Despite Meta's understanding that its platform is being used for child trafficking, it has not reported it correctly. '' This is a follow-up to the report in April .'
In addition, Meta was criticized for introducing end-to-end encryption for messages sent on Facebook and Messenger in December 2023. This is because end-to-end encryption makes text and images unreadable, making it difficult to identify child sexual exploitation. Meanwhile, privacy advocates praise end-to-end encryption.
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