New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez sued Meta Platforms Inc. and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, alleging the company allowed child sexual abuse material to be distributed on its platforms.
The 227-page civil lawsuit alleges Facebook and Instagram created “prime locations” for “sexual predators that enabled child sexual abuse, solicitation, and trafficking,” CNBC reports.
“Over the past few months, the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office carried out an undercover investigation of Meta’s platforms, creating decoy accounts of children 14-years and younger,” a press release from Raúl Torrez’s office stated.
The undercover investigation allegedly found evidence the platforms:
- Proactively served and directed the underage users a stream of egregious, sexually explicit images — even when the child has expressed no interest in this content
- Enabled dozens of adults to find, contact, and press children into providing sexually explicit pictures of themselves or participate in pornographic videos.
- Recommended that the children join unmoderated Facebook groups devoted to facilitating commercial sex.
- Allowed Facebook and Instagram users to find, share, and…
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