by Emily Mangiaracina, LifeSite News:
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez concluded that Facebook and Instagram have become ‘prime locations’ for sexual predators to trade child pornography and ‘solicit minors for sex.’
New Mexico’s attorney general filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, for facilitating child sex trafficking as well as the distribution of child sex abuse material.
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Attorney General Raúl Torrez, a prosecutor who has specialized in internet crimes against children, concluded after his office’s months-long investigation that Meta’s social media platforms are “not safe spaces for children, but rather prime locations for predators to trade child pornography and solicit minors for sex.”
The New Mexico Office of the Attorney General found that Meta “directs harmful and inappropriate material” at minors and “allows unconnected adults to have unfettered access to them,” despite the fact that Meta is capable of both identifying these users as minors and “providing warnings or other protections against” the harmful material. Worse, such material “poses substantial dangers of solicitation and trafficking.”
According to the lawsuit, the investigation found that, “[s]pecifically, with accounts clearly belonging to children,” Meta has:
Proactively served and directed them to a stream of egregious, sexually explicit images through recommended users and posts – even where the child has expressed no interest in this content;
Enabled adults to find, message, and groom minors, soliciting them to sell pictures or participate in pornographic videos;
Fostered unmoderated user groups devoted to or facilitating Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC);
Allowed users to search for, like, share, and sell a crushing volume of child sexual abuse material (CSAM);
Allowed, and failed to detect, a fictional mother offering her 13-year old for trafficking, and solicited the 13-year old to create her own professional page and sell advertising.
