Meta Is Facing Serious Allegations of Enabling Child Trafficking and Abuse

A new lawsuit filed against Meta claims that Facebook and Instagram enabled sexual predators by creating “prime locations” for child sexual abuse, solicitation and trafficking. The catalyst for the lawsuit, filed by New Mexico’s attorney general Raúl Torrez, was an eye-opening “undercover investigation.” Torrez alleges the investigation found an array of transgressions: minors being bombarded with sexually explicit content, instances of child sexual coercion, and even the horrifying sale of child sexual abuse material, commonly referred to as CSAM. The suit also alleges that the presence of “certain child exploitative...