Underage Facebook and Instagram users are exposed to adult sex content and disturbing messages from alleged child predators — including “pictures and videos of genitalia” and six-figure offers to star in porn movies, according to a bombshell civil lawsuit filed by the New Mexico attorney general’s office.
New Mexico state investigators set up test accounts on the Meta-owned social media sites for four fictional children using AI-generated photos that purportedly portrayed children aged 14 or younger.
Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg — whose platforms are already under fire for fueling a youth mental health crisis — allegedly failed to adequately protect those underage users from being inundated with the vile content, according to the complaint filed Tuesday in New Mexico state court.
“Meta has allowed Facebook and Instagram to become a marketplace for predators in search of children upon whom to prey,” according to the complaint, which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
