This Might Be Facebook’s Lowest Moment Yet

(PJ Media) Almost every day of my life it seems I have some new reason to think I’m the best dad in the world for keeping my kids off of Facebook and Instagram — and today is another one of those days.

Investigators in New Mexico created a fake account for a seventh-grade girl named “Issa Bee,” complete with AI-generated photos of her. Issa quickly attracted “thousands of adult followers who deluged her with both invitations to join private chat groups and sex content featuring both children and adults,” according to the Wall Street Journal.

With allegedly no effective safeguards in place to prevent child exploitation, this week New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez filed suit against Meta — the parent company of both social media platforms — alleging that the company “has allowed Facebook and Instagram to become a marketplace for predators in search of children upon whom to prey.”  (Read More)

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