Florida AG Demands Mark Zuckerberg Combat 'Sex Trafficking' on Meta Platforms

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'Public Safety Threat': Florida AG Demands Mark Zuckerberg Combat 'Sex Trafficking' on Meta Platforms

By Mike Miller
July 11, 2023

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody is demanding that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg explain the alleged high volume of human trafficking across Facebook, Instagram, and other Meta platforms after a recent report revealed that pedophiles are using the metaverse to sexually exploit children.

As reported by Fox News, Moody on Monday sent a letter to Zuckerberg, “inviting the CEO to speak with Florida’s Statewide Council on Human Trafficking on what preventative measures, if any, the tech giant is taking to end human trafficking on sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp.”

Moody mocked Zuckerberg for accepting Elon Musk’s cage-match challenge before he got down to the business at hand.

Before launching new products or wasting time preparing for a cage match that will likely never happen, Zuckerberg should be working to make Meta’s existing platforms safer for users and to prevent vulnerable people from being forced into illicit sex work.

The findings of our statewide survey and other reports make it clear that Meta platforms are the preferred social media applications for human traffickers looking to prey on vulnerable people.

Zuckerberg needs to immediately turn his attention to this public safety threat and testify to our council about what Meta is doing to prevent its platforms from being used to assist, facilitate or support human trafficking.

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According to the 2022 Federal Human Trafficking Report, Facebook was the top platform used in recruitment of human trafficking victims from 2019-2022. Facebook and Instagram combined to make up 60% of the top ten platforms included in the study.

Additionally, major social media sites self-reported increases in suspected child sexual abuse materials, including child sex trafficking incidences. According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s 2022 CyberTipline Reports by Electronic Service Providers, more than 27 million, or 85%, of the incidents reported were from Meta platforms.

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Source:  https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2023/07/11/public-safety-threat-florida-ag-demands-mark-zuckerberg-combat-sex-trafficking-on-meta-platforms-n774885

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There is something fundamentally wrong with people like Zuckerberg when a post that doesn't fit the lib/prog political narrative gets taken down immediately, regardless of its inherent truth, and the person who posted the post is deplatformed, but sex traffickers are allowed to operate unmolested.