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Related: A researcher for Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, warned executives at the tech giant that there may be upward of 500,000 cases of s

by xvxvx 8mo ago

Related: A researcher for Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, warned executives at the tech giant that there may be upward of 500,000 cases of sexual exploitation of minors per day on the social media platforms. https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/meta-researcher-warned-500k-child-exploitation-cases-daily-facebook-instagram-platforms?%3Fintcmp=fb_fbn&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/meta-researcher-warned... Who needs the dark web when Meta exists and is protected by the US government? Edit: downvotes? Lol

plagiarist 8mo ago
TBF these easily could be cases of Meta protecting the US government rather than vice versa.
zmgsabst 8mo ago
I always need to contextualize these numbers: - there are 2.4B under 18 globally - which means 500k is 0.02% of all children - or around 1 in 5000 children globally, per day - if evenly distributed (which is unlikely), then roughly 7-8% of all kids would feature in Meta exploitation yearly That suggests very high reoccurrence; but even reoccurrence suggests the total rate remains quite high. A reoccurrence rate of 100x would suggest that roughly 1 in 1000 kids is exploited on Meta, yearly. Anyway, disturbing.
jsheard 8mo ago
See also: the 17-strike policy for sex trafficking. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2025/11/22/meta-strike-policy-sex-trafficking-violations-testimony/87425612007/ https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2025/11/22/meta-strike-po...
- xvxvx 8mo ago
  Unbelievable. I mean, believable.. but WTF?
pants2 8mo ago
That headline seems like a stretch after reading the article (Fox after all) > sexually inappropriate messages were sent to "~500k victims per DAY in English markets only." This sounds like a total count of unsolicited sexual messages sent to all users every day.

by xvxvx 8mo ago

plagiarist 8mo ago

TBF these easily could be cases of Meta protecting the US government rather than vice versa.

zmgsabst 8mo ago

I always need to contextualize these numbers: - there are 2.4B under 18 globally - which means 500k is 0.02% of all children - or around 1 in 5000 children globally, per day - if evenly distributed (which is unlikely), then roughly 7-8% of all kids would feature in Meta exploitation yearly That suggests very high reoccurrence; but even reoccurrence suggests the total rate remains quite high. A reoccurrence rate of 100x would suggest that roughly 1 in 1000 kids is exploited on Meta, yearly. Anyway, disturbing.

jsheard 8mo ago

See also: the 17-strike policy for sex trafficking. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2025/11/22/meta-strike-policy-sex-trafficking-violations-testimony/87425612007/ https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2025/11/22/meta-strike-po...

xvxvx 8mo ago
Unbelievable. I mean, believable.. but WTF?

pants2 8mo ago

That headline seems like a stretch after reading the article (Fox after all) > sexually inappropriate messages were sent to "~500k victims per DAY in English markets only." This sounds like a total count of unsolicited sexual messages sent to all users every day.