Mark Zuckerberg Faces Accusations On Instagram Of Promoting Paedophilia [VIDEO]

Mark Zuckerberg Faces Accusations On Instagram Of Promoting Paedophilia

“What the hell were you thinking?” Sen. Ted Cruz, fires at Mark during a hearing on Instagram's warnings for content that may contain child sexual abuse which give users the option to.

On Wednesday, the attorney general of New Mexico attacked Meta and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, alleging that they neglected to shield kids from sexual predators on Facebook and Instagram.

AG Raúl Torrez stated, “He needs to do the right thing.” According to CNBC's Eamon Javers statement during “Squawk Box” at the U.S. Capitol just before Zuckerberg's testimony regarding protecting children on Meta's platforms before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

In December, Torrez filed a lawsuit against Meta and Zuckerberg, claiming that Facebook and Instagram served as “prime locations” for predators involved in sexual abuse, trafficking, and solicitation.

“By their own reckoning, nearly 100,000 children a day receive sexually explicit material or are targeted for sexual harassment” via social media, Torrez stated. “That's unacceptable.”

According to the attorney general, Zuckerberg “absolutely” received direct warning about the risk those incredibly popular social media platforms posed to children.

He cited emails that were found as part of the lawsuit in New Mexico, in which a senior executive from Meta is seen “warning other executives about the features that facilitate this kind of targeting and this kind of sexual exploitation of children.”

“It's clear to us the warnings issued throughout the company over numerous years have been elevated to the very highest levels,” Torrez said.

Regarding Meta and its enormously popular social media platforms, he said, “they have the resources and the technology, the ability” to stop predators from contacting children with sexual images and messages.

“They have to have the commitment.”

As part of an undercover investigation on the sites, Torrez's office allegedly used a 13-year-old girl's social media account. According to Torrez, “certain child exploitative content” is 10 times more common on social media platforms than it is on the porn site PornHub.

“Meta executives have known for years that their platforms were a breeding ground for pedophiles, for predators,” reported CNBC.

The phony 13-year-old's profile, according to the attorney general, “was simply inundated with images and targeted solicitations, which, frankly, I found to be shocking.”

“When I started doing this work 20 years ago, all of this kind of graphic information were in the dark corners of the web, and I was surprised at how readily available this was and how easy it was for predators to target underaged children,” he added.

Previous sections of New Mexico's lawsuit that had been redacted were made public earlier in January. They described an internal company chat at Meta in 2020 where a worker questioned a colleague, “What specifically are we doing for child grooming (something I just heard about that is happening a lot on TikTok)?”

The colleague said, “Somewhere between zero and negligible.” “Child safety is an explicit non-goal this half.”

Senator Ted Cruz

According to Meta, the company has resolved a number of the concerns brought up by the lawsuit from New Mexico, and in just one month, it disabled over 500,000 accounts from its websites due to infractions of kid-safe policy.

“We want teens to have safe, age- appropriate experiences online, and we have over 30 tools to support them and their parents,” Meta was quoted to have said earlier this month.

“We've spent a decade working on these issues and hiring people who have dedicated their careers to keeping young people safe and supported online. The complaint mischaracterizes our work using selective quotes and cherry-picked documents,” the company said.

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