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>79% of all child sex trafficking in 2020 occurred on Meta’s platforms. This sounded very high, and I was interested to know how they understood what the total

>79% of all child sex trafficking in 2020 occurred on Meta’s platforms. This sounded very high, and I was interested to know how they understood what the total (100%) figure was, given the presumed underground nature of the activity. Clicked on the link for the source. The statement is false. By all means hold these companies to account but sensationalism isn't going to help. Full disclosure: I have never had a Facebook account and couldn't care less whether Meta exists or not.

pbhjpbhj 8mo ago
I don't necessarily doubt it's false, but if you have something of your source material, or your reasoning then it would make it possible to agree.
- rappatic 8mo ago
  That link leads to a PDF which says "The 2020 Federal Human Trafficking Report found that 65% of child sex trafficking victims recruited on social media were recruited from Facebook, with 14% being recruited on Instagram." This is a completely different statistic: the percentage of child sex trafficking victims recruited on social media vs. the percentage "of all child sex trafficking."
  - y-c-o-m-b 8mo ago
    Perhaps it's an AI written/assisted article because they clearly added the two percentages together to come up with the poorly summarized claim.
Aurornis 8mo ago
I caught the same thing. Clicking on the link gives this text: > 79% of all child sex trafficking in 2020 occurred on Meta’s platforms. In 2019, the National Society For The Prevention of Cruelty to Children found that Instagram was the leading platform for child grooming in the U.K. The 2020 Federal Human Trafficking Report found that 65% of child sex trafficking victims recruited on social media were recruited from Facebook, with 14% being recruited on Instagram The study was only looking at sex trafficking victims in the UK in 2020 who were recruited on social media platforms. So 100% of the victims in the study were recruited on social media platforms. The breakdown is basically a map of which social media platforms were popular in the UK in 2020. It's a blatant lie to claim that this number represents all sex trafficking victims.

pbhjpbhj 8mo ago

I don't necessarily doubt it's false, but if you have something of your source material, or your reasoning then it would make it possible to agree.

rappatic 8mo ago
That link leads to a PDF which says "The 2020 Federal Human Trafficking Report found that 65% of child sex trafficking victims recruited on social media were recruited from Facebook, with 14% being recruited on Instagram." This is a completely different statistic: the percentage of child sex trafficking victims recruited on social media vs. the percentage "of all child sex trafficking."
- y-c-o-m-b 8mo ago
  Perhaps it's an AI written/assisted article because they clearly added the two percentages together to come up with the poorly summarized claim.

Aurornis 8mo ago

I caught the same thing. Clicking on the link gives this text: > 79% of all child sex trafficking in 2020 occurred on Meta’s platforms. In 2019, the National Society For The Prevention of Cruelty to Children found that Instagram was the leading platform for child grooming in the U.K. The 2020 Federal Human Trafficking Report found that 65% of child sex trafficking victims recruited on social media were recruited from Facebook, with 14% being recruited on Instagram The study was only looking at sex trafficking victims in the UK in 2020 who were recruited on social media platforms. So 100% of the victims in the study were recruited on social media platforms. The breakdown is basically a map of which social media platforms were popular in the UK in 2020. It's a blatant lie to claim that this number represents all sex trafficking victims.