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Instagram and Facebook knowingly platform parents who sexually exploit children for profit, say reports
The parents of “child influencers” know what they’re doing, and so does Meta.
According to separate reports published by The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, Facebook and Instagram have become a potentially lucrative endeavor for parents who run social media accounts for children — mostly girls — who aren’t old enough to meet the platforms’ minimum 13-year-old age requirements. According to The Wall Street Journal, while these parent-run accounts don’t feature illegal content or nudity, staff at Meta discovered that some parents were knowingly producing material of their children that pedophiles would find sexually gratifying. Meta already has a poor reputation regarding child protection on its platforms, with Instagram and Facebook being accused of creating a “marketplace for predators in search of children” in a lawsuit raised by the New Mexico attorney general in December.
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