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Facebook and Instagram's algorithms facilitated child sexual harassment, state lawsuit claims

An unredacted Meta internal presentation has revealed that the company's own employees recommended that 100,000 child users were harassed daily.

Last December the state of New Mexico sued Meta for failing to protect children, claiming that Facebook and Instagram algorithms recommended sexual content to minors. State investigators originally set up phony accounts for children, providing adult dates of birth, as kids often misstate their ages to access online services that they're not supposed to. The state further alleges that Meta leaders didn't take action to limit adult predation on minors until late 2022, and still stopped short of strict measure recommended by safety staff.

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