Meta documents show 100,000 children sexually harassed daily on its platforms
This is just *bananas*.
Meta estimates about 100,000 children using Facebook and Instagram receive online sexual harassment each day, including “pictures of adult genitalia”, according to internal company documents made public late Wednesday. [….] The documents describe an incident in 2020 when the 12-year-old daughter of an executive at Apple was solicited via IG Direct, Instagram’s messaging product. “This is the kind of thing that pisses Apple off to the extent of threatening to remove us from the App Store,” a Meta employee fretted, according to the documents. A senior Meta employee described how his own daughter had been solicited via Instagram in testimony to the US Congress late last year. His efforts to fix the problem were ignored, he said.
Last week’s “Moderated Content” podcast episode was well worth a listen on this: “Big Tech’s Big Tobacco Moment” – https://law.stanford.edu/podcasts/big-techs-big-tobacco-moment/(tags: facebook fail kids moderation parenting meta safety smartphones instagram harassment sexual-harassment)