People, including billionaire Elon Musk, have some ideas about a lawsuit that claims Facebook and Instagram have enabled child sexual abuse.
The lawsuit was filed this week against Facebook and Instagram's parent company, Meta, by New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez, a Democrat.
In a statement, Torrez accused social media platforms of creating “prime locations for predators to sell child pornography and solicit sex from minors.”
Today, #NMAG Raúl Torrez moved to hold @Meta and Mark Zuckerberg responsible for promoting child pornography and facilitating the trafficking of minors instead of protecting the children of New Mexico.https://t.co/zqS3QEUWsN pic.twitter.com/xirh0ZkD79
— NM Attorney General (@NewMexicoOAG) December 6, 2023
“Mr. “Zuckerberg and other Meta executives are aware of the serious harm their products can cause to young users, and yet they have not made enough changes to their platforms to prevent the sexual exploitation of children,” Torrez said.
“Despite repeated assurances to Congress and the public that they can be trusted to police themselves, it's clear that Meta executives continue to prioritize engagement and ad revenue over the safety of the most vulnerable members of our society,” added.
Torrez's office obtained evidence to prove this by conducting “an undercover investigation of Meta's platforms” by creating “hoax accounts of children 14 years of age and younger,” according to a press release.
The research uncovered a lot of unpleasant facts about social media platforms.
For example, the platforms “[p]proactively served and targeted underage users [to] a stream of heinous and sexually explicit images, even when the child has expressed no interest in such content,” the press release states.
The platforms also “[e]allowed dozens of adults to find, contact, and pressure children to provide sexually explicit images of themselves or participate in pornographic videos.”[r]recommended that children join unmoderated Facebook groups dedicated to facilitating commercial sex and “[a]allowed users to find, share and sell a huge volume of child pornography.”
And finally, the platforms allegedly allowed a fictional mother to try to sell her 13-year-old daughter to sex traffickers.
Back to Musk, he and others have been interested in this suit because of what it says about Disney. Because, you see, Disney advertises on Facebook and Instagram, despite the platforms enabling child sexual abuse.
In fact, Disney currently runs more than 300 ads for Disneyland and Disney World on Facebook and Instagram:
NEW: New Mexico has sued Meta and Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly allowing the distribution of child sexual abuse material.
hey @RobertIger and other advertisers: Will you suspend advertising on Facebook and Instagram like you did with X?
Disney currently runs ~300 ads for… pic.twitter.com/2OK1W29P2i
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 7, 2023
That's a lot of money being used to support platforms that allow child sexual abuse, and Musk in particular doesn't like it, especially given Disney chief Bob Iger's recent decision to stop advertising on X .
As previously reported, Iger stopped advertising on X after Media Matters, a left-wing propaganda outlet, published a report. dubious claim that Musk's platform is a bonfire of rabid anti-Semitic hate.
X's boss was not happy. In addition to filing a “thermonuclear lawsuit” against Media Matters, he also told advertisers like Iger's Disney that go pounding sand.
And now that he's learned of Facebook and Instagram's tacit endorsement of child sexual abuse content, he's especially angry with Disney (and others like them).
Look at:
Bob Eiger thinks it's great to advertise next to child exploitation material. Real standing man. https://t.co/7uMr6o9QVC
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 7, 2023
Yes, why are their marketing directors endorsing child trafficking!?
Let's ask them. https://t.co/2XhZxNybDm
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 7, 2023
Why no advertiser boycott, Bob Eiger? You are endorsing this material! https://t.co/EVza5VZeSa
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 7, 2023
The point of his tweets was to highlight the hypocrisy of advertisers like Disney abandoning outlets like X because of smears by groups like Media Matters, but have nothing to say about legitimate charges against outlets like FB and Instagram.
Musk wasn't the only one calling out Disney in particular. Many X fans also followed suit.
Look at:
@Disney @Apple @IBM @paramountplus you seem to like advertising on child sexual abuse apps.
— Larckening (@LarckeningXuruo) December 6, 2023
And yet @Disney advertise on these platforms without any objection about that horrible situation. Hi Bob!
— Erik P. Brown (@ErikPBrown1) December 6, 2023
It's strange that the big advertisers haven't made a big show of pulling ads from these platforms…
— Tim ☠️Decentralize and Override ☠️ (@Tim_The_Sandman) December 7, 2023
Yes, most advertisers agree with them, and no
That's hardly the reason they don't advertise here, almost as if there's another reason that's more politically motivated.
— FuturamaKing (@FuturamaKing) December 6, 2023
Waiting @Disney to remove advertising from Meta…
Or maybe Disney likes child sexual abuse and trafficking? pic.twitter.com/pojX26lEyg
— economatrix (@economatrix1) December 6, 2023
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