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74 Year Old Man Defeats Mark Zuckerberg At His Own Game! 12/20/2021
Mark Zuckerberg is the epitome of a COWARD!
The wonderkid Harvard dropout who, with many others, created the largest social media website in the world is about to be chastised for his illegal and unethical behavior!
Unfortunately over the years he has built it while committing some of the most despicable and egregious criminal acts against society known to mankind. He has perpetrated and perpetuated these criminal activities with total impunity, however his crimes have finally caught up to him and it’s now time to reap what he has sown.
This website owner has challenged Mark Zuckerberg to file a lawsuit against this website owner numerous times and he has ignored the request because he is indeed a Coward of the worst kind.
This website owner has legally registered a significant number of Facebook domain names such as FacebookWhistleblowers.com (list attached at end of article) utilizing them in a constitutionally protected protest websites that Facebook, aka Mark Zuckerberg, has criminally conspired with Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Sundar Pichai of Google to manipulate dozens of these and other websites belonging to this website owner to prevent the public from being made aware of their respective existence and the truthful information about the monumental abuses contained therein.
This website and soon to be dozens more will have this same content to expose Zuckerberg’s criminal behavior for the entire world to view.
Mark Zuckerberg’s cowardice stems from the fact that he is deathly afraid of having to testify in a public jury trial, where he will be legally bound to testify at great length under oath under penalty of perjury, to his considerable criminal and highly unethical behavior since 2004.
A couple years ago, July 2019, Zuckerberg, using Facebook‘s money, paid the exorbitant record-breaking penalty sum of $5 Billion dollars for deceiving users, to the federal government FTC, for knowingly violating consumer’s privacy, to prevent him from having to testify in a government trial.
Mark Zuckerberg is a borderline Sociopath in that his disdain for the law aided Facebook in causing human suffering to millions of its user members, especially the younger ones, is absolutely pathetic and unconscionable yet he denies any responsibility for the horrendous damage he has brought about by his insane cravings for the almighty dollar at the expense of individuals pain and agony.
As has been stated by numerous others Mark Zuckerberg should be imprisoned for his plethora of crimes and the only way he has avoided same is up until now no one has brought him to the brink of testifying in a prolonged public trial where he is unable to hide behind his multibillion $ investments.
Mark Zuckerberg is so afraid of this website owner’s content that he has decided to totally alter the corporate name and identity because of the ownership of numerous Facebook domains used to identify his criminal behavior such as Child Abuse, Dark Patterns, Discrimination, Human Smuggling, Racism, Sex Trafficking, Pedophilia etc. among others propagated on his Facebook apps such as Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp who’s membership numbers approximately 3 Billion people, meaning over half of the internet population of the world.
This man, and the term man is used lightly, has also chosen to alter his newly formed Metaverse and Virtual Reality name to Meta and Horizon Worlds because this website owner has legally registered several domain names utilizing OculusMetaverse.com, MetaQuestPlatforms.com and HorizonMetaverse.com for example.
Zuckerberg’s deep seeded fear of testifying on the witness stand in a public trial has caused him to spend $ Billions of dollars to completely change his business plan due to the fact that he didn’t have the intelligence or foresight to register the appropriate domains prior to embarking on this new path of Virtual Reality and the Metaverse, nor did he apply for the corresponding Federal Trademarks for each.
His inadequate business acumen alone should be bonafide proof that he, ergo Facebook, ergo Meta Platforms et al is incapable of being a major player in the Metaverse and should be barred from participation in any significant manner thereof.
Sociopaths should be prevented from even remaining in a CEO and Chairman capacity of an entity that could weld even more dominant power in what is most certainly a life altering endeavor over the vast majority of the world population for eons to come!
This website owner emphatically wants to engage the Coward of the Universe in a public civil trial where Mark Zuckerberg will be on the witness stand for several days testifying under oath under penalty of perjury about every conceivable criminal activity he has ever been a party to from the inception of Facebook until now so he can’t escape his culpability which will hopefully transfer to a criminal trial causing his proven guilt to lead to a substantial incarceration in either a state or federal prison which is definitely what he deserves.
This content will be a cut and paste onto dozens of websites to inform the public about mark Zuckerberg’s dastardly deeds and possibly many news organizations around the globe will expound on the subject which may expose and humiliate this Coward.
This website owner has requested Facebook and Zuckerberg to initiate a civil lawsuit against same if he believes that any Copyright Infringement, Defamation and/or Libel has occurred against them and he has not even acknowledged the existence of any wrongdoing therefore by his absence of filing of any legal action is an admission that none took place.
Facebook did its utmost best, along with coconspirators Amazon and Google, to stifle the protest websites which is why they have never been in the news and speaks for itself why the public awareness has never transpired.
No US Federal Trademarks Registered
Protest Websites:
FacebookChildAbuse.com
FacebookDiscrimination.com
FacebookHumanSmuggling.com
FacebookDarkPatterns.com
FacebookKillingPeople.com
FacebookPedophiles.com
FacebookRacism.com
FacebookSexTrafficking.com
FacebookWhistleblowers.com
MessengerSucks.com
WhatsAppSucks.com
Meta type Domain Names:
HorizonMetaverse.com
Horizon3DWorlds.com
HorizonVirtualWorlds.com
HorizonARMetaverse.com
HorizonVRMetaverse.com
Horizon3DMetaverse.com
MetaNFTPlatforms.com
MetaQuestAvatars.com
MetaQuestNFT.com
MetaQuestHeadsets.com
MetaQuestNetwork.com
MetaQuestPlatforms.com
MetaVirtualPlatforms.com
MetaPlatformsAI.com
MetaPlatformsApp.com
MetaPlatformsAvatars.com
MetaPlatformsBank.com
MetaPlatformsCo.com
MetaPlatformsETF.com
MetaPlatformsFashion.com
MetaPlatformsGaming.com
MetaPlatformsHeadsets.com
MetaPlatformsHealthcare.com
MetaPlatformsHQ.com
MetaPlatformaHub.com
MetaPlatformsMetaverse.com
MetaPlatformsNews.com
MetaPlatformsReels.com
MetaPlatformsSports.com
MetaPlatformsTV.com
MetaPlatformsVideos.com
MetaPlatformsVR.com
MetaPlatformsWeb3.com
MetaPresencePlatform.com
RealityLabsHQ.com
RealityLabsMetaverse.com
This entire content will be emailed to thousands of Facebook / Meta employees and users along with a multitude of news organizations, Facebook advertisers and government agencies throughout the world in hopes of garnering public outcry about the abuses this company has perpetrated against the global population and with minimal success and support it might bring this Coward to his knees and with some US Government pressure Zuckerberg might relinquish his dictatorship control so this company may proceed without Mark Zuckerberg at the helm and all of society will be the better for it!
Knowing that Facebook may block familiar email addresses there will be a batch of new addresses created that they are unaware of therefore the great majority of notifications will proceed unabated by Zuck as he prefers to be called.
More content will be forthcoming as soon as possible so this is just the beginning of the end for Mark Zuckerberg.
Mark Zuckerberg is the epitome of a COWARD!
The wonderkid Harvard dropout who, with many others, created the largest social media website in the world is about to be chastised for his illegal and unethical behavior!
Unfortunately over the years he has built it while committing some of the most despicable and egregious criminal acts against society known to mankind. He has perpetrated and perpetuated these criminal activities with total impunity, however his crimes have finally caught up to him and it’s now time to reap what he has sown.
This website owner has challenged Mark Zuckerberg to file a lawsuit against this website owner numerous times and he has ignored the request because he is indeed a Coward of the worst kind.
This website owner has legally registered a significant number of Facebook domain names such as FacebookWhistleblowers.com (list attached at end of article) utilizing them in a constitutionally protected protest websites that Facebook, aka Mark Zuckerberg, has criminally conspired with Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Sundar Pichai of Google to manipulate dozens of these and other websites belonging to this website owner to prevent the public from being made aware of their respective existence and the truthful information about the monumental abuses contained therein.
This website and soon to be dozens more will have this same content to expose Zuckerberg’s criminal behavior for the entire world to view.
Mark Zuckerberg’s cowardice stems from the fact that he is deathly afraid of having to testify in a public jury trial, where he will be legally bound to testify at great length under oath under penalty of perjury, to his considerable criminal and highly unethical behavior since 2004.
A couple years ago, July 2019, Zuckerberg, using Facebook‘s money, paid the exorbitant record-breaking penalty sum of $5 Billion dollars for deceiving users, to the federal government FTC, for knowingly violating consumer’s privacy, to prevent him from having to testify in a government trial.
Mark Zuckerberg is a borderline Sociopath in that his disdain for the law aided Facebook in causing human suffering to millions of its user members, especially the younger ones, is absolutely pathetic and unconscionable yet he denies any responsibility for the horrendous damage he has brought about by his insane cravings for the almighty dollar at the expense of individuals pain and agony.
As has been stated by numerous others Mark Zuckerberg should be imprisoned for his plethora of crimes and the only way he has avoided same is up until now no one has brought him to the brink of testifying in a prolonged public trial where he is unable to hide behind his multibillion $ investments.
Mark Zuckerberg is so afraid of this website owner’s content that he has decided to totally alter the corporate name and identity because of the ownership of numerous Facebook domains used to identify his criminal behavior such as Child Abuse, Dark Patterns, Discrimination, Human Smuggling, Racism, Sex Trafficking, Pedophilia etc. among others propagated on his Facebook apps such as Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp who’s membership numbers approximately 3 Billion people, meaning over half of the internet population of the world.
This man, and the term man is used lightly, has also chosen to alter his newly formed Metaverse and Virtual Reality name to Meta and Horizon Worlds because this website owner has legally registered several domain names utilizing OculusMetaverse.com, MetaQuestPlatforms.com and HorizonMetaverse.com for example.
Zuckerberg’s deep seeded fear of testifying on the witness stand in a public trial has caused him to spend $ Billions of dollars to completely change his business plan due to the fact that he didn’t have the intelligence or foresight to register the appropriate domains prior to embarking on this new path of Virtual Reality and the Metaverse, nor did he apply for the corresponding Federal Trademarks for each.
His inadequate business acumen alone should be bonafide proof that he, ergo Facebook, ergo Meta Platforms et al is incapable of being a major player in the Metaverse and should be barred from participation in any significant manner thereof.
Sociopaths should be prevented from even remaining in a CEO and Chairman capacity of an entity that could weld even more dominant power in what is most certainly a life altering endeavor over the vast majority of the world population for eons to come!
This website owner emphatically wants to engage the Coward of the Universe in a public civil trial where Mark Zuckerberg will be on the witness stand for several days testifying under oath under penalty of perjury about every conceivable criminal activity he has ever been a party to from the inception of Facebook until now so he can’t escape his culpability which will hopefully transfer to a criminal trial causing his proven guilt to lead to a substantial incarceration in either a state or federal prison which is definitely what he deserves.
This content will be a cut and paste onto dozens of websites to inform the public about mark Zuckerberg’s dastardly deeds and possibly many news organizations around the globe will expound on the subject which may expose and humiliate this Coward.
This website owner has requested Facebook and Zuckerberg to initiate a civil lawsuit against same if he believes that any Copyright Infringement, Defamation and/or Libel has occurred against them and he has not even acknowledged the existence of any wrongdoing therefore by his absence of filing of any legal action is an admission that none took place.
Facebook did its utmost best, along with coconspirators Amazon and Google, to stifle the protest websites which is why they have never been in the news and speaks for itself why the public awareness has never transpired.
No US Federal Trademarks Registered
Protest Websites:
FacebookChildAbuse.com
FacebookDiscrimination.com
FacebookHumanSmuggling.com
FacebookDarkPatterns.com
FacebookKillingPeople.com
FacebookPedophiles.com
FacebookRacism.com
FacebookSexTrafficking.com
FacebookWhistleblowers.com
MessengerSucks.com
WhatsAppSucks.com
Meta type Domain Names:
HorizonMetaverse.com
Horizon3DWorlds.com
HorizonVirtualWorlds.com
HorizonARMetaverse.com
HorizonVRMetaverse.com
Horizon3DMetaverse.com
MetaNFTPlatforms.com
MetaQuestAvatars.com
MetaQuestNFT.com
MetaQuestHeadsets.com
MetaQuestNetwork.com
MetaQuestPlatforms.com
MetaVirtualPlatforms.com
MetaPlatformsAI.com
MetaPlatformsApp.com
MetaPlatformsAvatars.com
MetaPlatformsBank.com
MetaPlatformsCo.com
MetaPlatformsETF.com
MetaPlatformsFashion.com
MetaPlatformsGaming.com
MetaPlatformsHeadsets.com
MetaPlatformsHealthcare.com
MetaPlatformsHQ.com
MetaPlatformaHub.com
MetaPlatformsMetaverse.com
MetaPlatformsNews.com
MetaPlatformsReels.com
MetaPlatformsSports.com
MetaPlatformsTV.com
MetaPlatformsVideos.com
MetaPlatformsVR.com
MetaPlatformsWeb3.com
MetaPresencePlatform.com
RealityLabsHQ.com
RealityLabsMetaverse.com
This entire content will be emailed to thousands of Facebook / Meta employees and users along with a multitude of news organizations, Facebook advertisers and government agencies throughout the world in hopes of garnering public outcry about the abuses this company has perpetrated against the global population and with minimal success and support it might bring this Coward to his knees and with some US Government pressure Zuckerberg might relinquish his dictatorship control so this company may proceed without Mark Zuckerberg at the helm and all of society will be the better for it!
Knowing that Facebook may block familiar email addresses there will be a batch of new addresses created that they are unaware of therefore the great majority of notifications will proceed unabated by Zuck as he prefers to be called.
More content will be forthcoming as soon as possible so this is just the beginning of the end for Mark Zuckerberg.
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO and majority of voting stock owner of Facebook, uses Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to facilitate and promote Child Sex Trafficking. How would Mark and Priscilla Chan Zuckerberg feel if his Facebook organization allowed Child Sex Trafficking of their own children? Would he then police Facebook sufficiently enough to prevent every form of Child Sex Trafficking forever on Facebook if their children were exposed to this deplorable and despicable behavior? Absolutely!
Facebook may be held accountable for knowingly benefiting from sex traffickers who have used his social network to ensnare victims, the Texas Supreme Court ruled. Sex Trafficking is a CRIME!
This website will be a repository of information regarding how Facebook and others condone and promote Child Sex Trafficking with impunity. Facebook is the most egregious of all the social media websites and apps that allow Child Sex Trafficking to proliferate. Hopefully this website content (FacebookSexTrafficking.com) will inform the public and help alleviate and prevent this plethora of ongoing Human Sex Trafficking through Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg has become a Multi Billionaire, in part due to the abundance of Human Trafficking and Child Sex Trafficking on Facebook, and he attempts to hide behind Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which the United States Congress needs to repeal.
Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook may temporarily escape Antitrust lawsuits but Child Sex Trafficking and Human Trafficking are an entirely different matter that aren't as easy to avoid.
Some members of US Congress believe Mark Zuckerberg should be sent to prison for his actions!
Facebook may be held accountable for knowingly benefiting from sex traffickers who have used his social network to ensnare victims, the Texas Supreme Court ruled. Sex Trafficking is a CRIME!
This website will be a repository of information regarding how Facebook and others condone and promote Child Sex Trafficking with impunity. Facebook is the most egregious of all the social media websites and apps that allow Child Sex Trafficking to proliferate. Hopefully this website content (FacebookSexTrafficking.com) will inform the public and help alleviate and prevent this plethora of ongoing Human Sex Trafficking through Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg has become a Multi Billionaire, in part due to the abundance of Human Trafficking and Child Sex Trafficking on Facebook, and he attempts to hide behind Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which the United States Congress needs to repeal.
Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook may temporarily escape Antitrust lawsuits but Child Sex Trafficking and Human Trafficking are an entirely different matter that aren't as easy to avoid.
Some members of US Congress believe Mark Zuckerberg should be sent to prison for his actions!
Facebook asked users if pedophiles should be able to ask kids for 'sexual pictures'
Facebook is under fire for asking users whether pedophiles should be able to proposition underage girls for sexually explicit photographs on the giant social network.
The survey is the latest in a series of missteps by the Silicon Valley company, which has been criticized for allowing content that exploits children.
From violence on its Live streaming service to hate speech to divisive messages sent by Russian operatives trying to to meddle in the U.S. presidential election, toxic content flowing through its platform has heightened scrutiny of Facebook.
Facebook scrapped the survey that posed questions about teens being groomed by older men after it was spotted by media outlets in the United Kingdom. It now says the survey could have been better "designed."
The company routinely uses surveys to get feedback from the social network's more than 2 billion users. More recently, Facebook has been relying on user surveys to take their pulse on everything from the "fake news" epidemic to whether Facebook makes them happy as people have stopped spending as much time there.
But the two questions in Sunday's survey shocked and angered Facebook users.
"In thinking about an ideal world where you could set Facebook’s policies, how would you handle the following: a private message in which an adult man asks a 14-year-old girl for sexual pictures," Facebook asked.
Sexual contact with minors online, part of a "grooming process" in which adults seek to gain trust and lower inhibition, is often a precursor to sexual abuse.
The possible responses Facebook offered to the question ranged from "this content should not be allowed on Facebook, and no one should be able to see it" to "this content should be allowed on Facebook, and I would not mind seeing it."
Another question asked who should decide whether an adult man can ask for sexual pictures on Facebook, with options ranging from "Facebook users decide the rules by voting and tell Facebook" to "Facebook decides the rules on its own."
Jonathan Haynes, digital editor at the Guardian newspaper, tweeted: “I’m like, er wait is making it secret the best Facebook can offer here? Not, y’know, calling the police?"
"That was a mistake," Guy Rosen, a vice president of product at Facebook, responded.
"We run surveys to understand how the community thinks about how we set policies,” he wrote on Twitter. “But this kind of activity is and will always be completely unacceptable on (Facebook). We regularly work with authorities if identified. It shouldn't have been part of this survey."
"It is hard to believe that Facebook could be so utterly tone-deaf when it comes to this issue," said Diana Graber, founder of Cyber Civics and CyberWise which teach digital literacy to kids and parents. "The fact that Facebook would even pose this question theoretically is disgusting."
In a statement, Facebook said the survey referred to "offensive content that is already prohibited on Facebook and that we have no intention of allowing."
Stacey Steinberg, a law professor at the University of Florida and author of Sharenting: Children’s Privacy in the Age of Social Media, says the Facebook survey sent a "terrible message" and, worse yet, normalizes predatory behavior.
Facebook shouldn't be asking users whether such behavior is acceptable, it should be educating families on the risks posed by online predators, she said.
"Working with law enforcement is an important first step, but Facebook can do even more. Instead of asking questions such as the ones posed in this survey, Facebook can use its reach to help families and victims," Steinberg said.
Digital citizenship expert and technology ethicist David Ryan Polgar chalks up the flap over the survey to "massive growing pains" as Facebook wrestles with its social responsibility.
"The misstep with the survey seems to be a situation of good intentions that did not fully appreciate the rightful anger and frustration the general public feels towards the current online environment," he said.
International attention to how pedophiles use social media to target and prey on children has grown in recent years.
An investigation by the BBC in 2016 uncovered numerous private Facebook groups by and for men with a sexual interest in children to share images, with one run by a convicted pedophile. Photos of children taken from their parents' Facebook accounts have also been found on pedophile sites.
Facebook faced criticism again in 2017 when the BBC flagged dozens of images and pages containing child pornography. Of the 100 reported images,18 were removed by Facebook, according to the BBC. At the time, the BBC said Facebook asked to be sent examples of the images and then reported the broadcaster to the child exploitation unit of Britain’s National Crime Agency.
Verified child sex abuse images are sent to the U.S. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and other organizations that work with law enforcement to find offenders. Facebook also combats the spread of child pornography with technology that detects and blocks content from being uploaded.
"We have prohibited child grooming on Facebook since our earliest days," the company said. "We have no intention of changing this, and we regularly work with the police to ensure that anyone found acting in such a way is brought to justice."
USA TODAY - Jessica Guynn
The survey is the latest in a series of missteps by the Silicon Valley company, which has been criticized for allowing content that exploits children.
From violence on its Live streaming service to hate speech to divisive messages sent by Russian operatives trying to to meddle in the U.S. presidential election, toxic content flowing through its platform has heightened scrutiny of Facebook.
Facebook scrapped the survey that posed questions about teens being groomed by older men after it was spotted by media outlets in the United Kingdom. It now says the survey could have been better "designed."
The company routinely uses surveys to get feedback from the social network's more than 2 billion users. More recently, Facebook has been relying on user surveys to take their pulse on everything from the "fake news" epidemic to whether Facebook makes them happy as people have stopped spending as much time there.
But the two questions in Sunday's survey shocked and angered Facebook users.
"In thinking about an ideal world where you could set Facebook’s policies, how would you handle the following: a private message in which an adult man asks a 14-year-old girl for sexual pictures," Facebook asked.
Sexual contact with minors online, part of a "grooming process" in which adults seek to gain trust and lower inhibition, is often a precursor to sexual abuse.
The possible responses Facebook offered to the question ranged from "this content should not be allowed on Facebook, and no one should be able to see it" to "this content should be allowed on Facebook, and I would not mind seeing it."
Another question asked who should decide whether an adult man can ask for sexual pictures on Facebook, with options ranging from "Facebook users decide the rules by voting and tell Facebook" to "Facebook decides the rules on its own."
Jonathan Haynes, digital editor at the Guardian newspaper, tweeted: “I’m like, er wait is making it secret the best Facebook can offer here? Not, y’know, calling the police?"
"That was a mistake," Guy Rosen, a vice president of product at Facebook, responded.
"We run surveys to understand how the community thinks about how we set policies,” he wrote on Twitter. “But this kind of activity is and will always be completely unacceptable on (Facebook). We regularly work with authorities if identified. It shouldn't have been part of this survey."
"It is hard to believe that Facebook could be so utterly tone-deaf when it comes to this issue," said Diana Graber, founder of Cyber Civics and CyberWise which teach digital literacy to kids and parents. "The fact that Facebook would even pose this question theoretically is disgusting."
In a statement, Facebook said the survey referred to "offensive content that is already prohibited on Facebook and that we have no intention of allowing."
Stacey Steinberg, a law professor at the University of Florida and author of Sharenting: Children’s Privacy in the Age of Social Media, says the Facebook survey sent a "terrible message" and, worse yet, normalizes predatory behavior.
Facebook shouldn't be asking users whether such behavior is acceptable, it should be educating families on the risks posed by online predators, she said.
"Working with law enforcement is an important first step, but Facebook can do even more. Instead of asking questions such as the ones posed in this survey, Facebook can use its reach to help families and victims," Steinberg said.
Digital citizenship expert and technology ethicist David Ryan Polgar chalks up the flap over the survey to "massive growing pains" as Facebook wrestles with its social responsibility.
"The misstep with the survey seems to be a situation of good intentions that did not fully appreciate the rightful anger and frustration the general public feels towards the current online environment," he said.
International attention to how pedophiles use social media to target and prey on children has grown in recent years.
An investigation by the BBC in 2016 uncovered numerous private Facebook groups by and for men with a sexual interest in children to share images, with one run by a convicted pedophile. Photos of children taken from their parents' Facebook accounts have also been found on pedophile sites.
Facebook faced criticism again in 2017 when the BBC flagged dozens of images and pages containing child pornography. Of the 100 reported images,18 were removed by Facebook, according to the BBC. At the time, the BBC said Facebook asked to be sent examples of the images and then reported the broadcaster to the child exploitation unit of Britain’s National Crime Agency.
Verified child sex abuse images are sent to the U.S. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and other organizations that work with law enforcement to find offenders. Facebook also combats the spread of child pornography with technology that detects and blocks content from being uploaded.
"We have prohibited child grooming on Facebook since our earliest days," the company said. "We have no intention of changing this, and we regularly work with the police to ensure that anyone found acting in such a way is brought to justice."
USA TODAY - Jessica Guynn
Over 300 cases of child exploitation went unnoticed by Facebook – Reports show that as users on Facebook have increased, so has the number of child exploitation cases.
A report suggests the tech giant is not fully enforcing its own standards banning content that exploits or endangers children
Facebook failed to catch hundreds of cases of child exploitation on its platform over the past six years, a study published on Wednesday found.
The site was used as a medium to sexually exploit children in at least 366 cases between January 2013 and December 2019, a report from the not-for-profit investigative group Tech Transparency Project (TPP) analyzing Department of Justice news releases found.
Only 9% of the 366 cases were investigated because Facebook alerted authorities, while the rest of the investigations were initiated by authorities without prompting from the social media giant.
This suggests Facebook is not doing all it can to enforce its community standards, which bans “content that sexually exploits or endangers children,” said TPP executive director Daniel Stevens.
Social media firms to be penalised for not removing child abuse
“The data shows Facebook is not doing as much as it should to address this very serious problem affecting many lives in this country,” Stevens said.
The reports analyzed by the TPP include a Rhode Island man who allegedly posed as a teenage girl to lure boys into live streaming sexual activity on Facebook Messenger, a Kentucky man accused of sending thousands of messages to more than one child target over Facebook, and a convicted Missouri sex offender who authorities said used Facebook Messenger to communicate with a 13-year-old girl.
As users on Facebook have increased, so has the number of child exploitation cases. There were as many as 23 cases per quarter in 2019 compared to just 10 per quarter in 2013.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly noted the company’s efforts to address child exploitation on the platform. Facebook did not respond to a request for comment.
“Child exploitation is one of the most serious threats that we focus on,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg told lawmakers in October 2019. “We build sophisticated systems to find this behavior.”
The company also appears to have taken on more enforcement responsibility since the passage of FOSTA-SESTA, which allows law enforcement to hold companies liable for what occurs on their platforms. Though the legislation has been criticized for its adverse affects on sex workers and other professions, it has forced Facebook to address online sexual exploitation of children, the report showed.
One month after FOSTA-SESTA was passed, Facebook was sued by an alleged victim of sexual abuse who said that at age 15 she was targeted and groomed by sex traffickers using Facebook.
In the five years before the controversial bill’s passage, Facebook averaged less than one cyber tip per quarter, according to TTP analysis. Since the bill was passed in March 2018, it has averaged more than three reports per quarter. Facebook and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children have made more reports in the last two years since the passage of FOSTA-SESTA than in the prior five years combined.
Facebook has been criticized in the past for inaction in the face of reports regarding the exploitation of children on the platform. In February 2016 the BBC discovered Facebook groups where pedophiles swapped stolen images of children and reported 20 inappropriate images to Facebook as part of the investigation. The company took down only four. Following its report, the TPP alerted Facebook to a public page hosting an inappropriate picture of a young girl aimed at pedophiles, but the company did not remove it.
Facebook has said it has “zero tolerance” for such images and uses a technology called PhotoDNA to scan each image and flagged known child exploitative material to stop uploads of such imagery on the platform.
The TPP report comes as US regulators are set to introduce legislation to force tech giants to crack down on child exploitation on their platforms. A bipartisan bill from senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal, called the Earn It Act, is expected to be introduced as early as Wednesday. Under the new act, platforms would be required to more aggressively address child sexual exploitation or risk losing protections under Section 230, a measure that prevents platforms from being held responsible for content posted on them.
While bipartisan support grows for holding tech giants accountable for exploitative content, the digital rights not-for-profit the Electronic Frontier Foundation has called Section 230 “the most important law protecting internet speech”. Facebook has expressed concerns the Earn It Act would weaken those free speech protections and roll back privacy efforts like encryption.
“We share the Earn It Act sponsors’ commitment to child safety and have made keeping children safe online a top priority by developing and deploying technology to thwart the sharing of child abuse material,” Facebook spokesman Thomas Richards said in a statement. “We’re concerned the Earn It Act may be used to roll back encryption, which protects everyone’s safety from hackers and criminals, and may limit the ability of American companies to provide the private and secure services that people expect.”
The justice department will unveil its own action against child exploitation on Thursday, with a proposal of 11 “voluntary principles” for tech platforms to target the issue. It was co-authored with members of the tech industry and is already backed by leaders of five countries, the Washington Post reported.
Kari Paul - The Guardian
A report suggests the tech giant is not fully enforcing its own standards banning content that exploits or endangers children
Facebook failed to catch hundreds of cases of child exploitation on its platform over the past six years, a study published on Wednesday found.
The site was used as a medium to sexually exploit children in at least 366 cases between January 2013 and December 2019, a report from the not-for-profit investigative group Tech Transparency Project (TPP) analyzing Department of Justice news releases found.
Only 9% of the 366 cases were investigated because Facebook alerted authorities, while the rest of the investigations were initiated by authorities without prompting from the social media giant.
This suggests Facebook is not doing all it can to enforce its community standards, which bans “content that sexually exploits or endangers children,” said TPP executive director Daniel Stevens.
Social media firms to be penalised for not removing child abuse
“The data shows Facebook is not doing as much as it should to address this very serious problem affecting many lives in this country,” Stevens said.
The reports analyzed by the TPP include a Rhode Island man who allegedly posed as a teenage girl to lure boys into live streaming sexual activity on Facebook Messenger, a Kentucky man accused of sending thousands of messages to more than one child target over Facebook, and a convicted Missouri sex offender who authorities said used Facebook Messenger to communicate with a 13-year-old girl.
As users on Facebook have increased, so has the number of child exploitation cases. There were as many as 23 cases per quarter in 2019 compared to just 10 per quarter in 2013.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly noted the company’s efforts to address child exploitation on the platform. Facebook did not respond to a request for comment.
“Child exploitation is one of the most serious threats that we focus on,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg told lawmakers in October 2019. “We build sophisticated systems to find this behavior.”
The company also appears to have taken on more enforcement responsibility since the passage of FOSTA-SESTA, which allows law enforcement to hold companies liable for what occurs on their platforms. Though the legislation has been criticized for its adverse affects on sex workers and other professions, it has forced Facebook to address online sexual exploitation of children, the report showed.
One month after FOSTA-SESTA was passed, Facebook was sued by an alleged victim of sexual abuse who said that at age 15 she was targeted and groomed by sex traffickers using Facebook.
In the five years before the controversial bill’s passage, Facebook averaged less than one cyber tip per quarter, according to TTP analysis. Since the bill was passed in March 2018, it has averaged more than three reports per quarter. Facebook and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children have made more reports in the last two years since the passage of FOSTA-SESTA than in the prior five years combined.
Facebook has been criticized in the past for inaction in the face of reports regarding the exploitation of children on the platform. In February 2016 the BBC discovered Facebook groups where pedophiles swapped stolen images of children and reported 20 inappropriate images to Facebook as part of the investigation. The company took down only four. Following its report, the TPP alerted Facebook to a public page hosting an inappropriate picture of a young girl aimed at pedophiles, but the company did not remove it.
Facebook has said it has “zero tolerance” for such images and uses a technology called PhotoDNA to scan each image and flagged known child exploitative material to stop uploads of such imagery on the platform.
The TPP report comes as US regulators are set to introduce legislation to force tech giants to crack down on child exploitation on their platforms. A bipartisan bill from senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal, called the Earn It Act, is expected to be introduced as early as Wednesday. Under the new act, platforms would be required to more aggressively address child sexual exploitation or risk losing protections under Section 230, a measure that prevents platforms from being held responsible for content posted on them.
While bipartisan support grows for holding tech giants accountable for exploitative content, the digital rights not-for-profit the Electronic Frontier Foundation has called Section 230 “the most important law protecting internet speech”. Facebook has expressed concerns the Earn It Act would weaken those free speech protections and roll back privacy efforts like encryption.
“We share the Earn It Act sponsors’ commitment to child safety and have made keeping children safe online a top priority by developing and deploying technology to thwart the sharing of child abuse material,” Facebook spokesman Thomas Richards said in a statement. “We’re concerned the Earn It Act may be used to roll back encryption, which protects everyone’s safety from hackers and criminals, and may limit the ability of American companies to provide the private and secure services that people expect.”
The justice department will unveil its own action against child exploitation on Thursday, with a proposal of 11 “voluntary principles” for tech platforms to target the issue. It was co-authored with members of the tech industry and is already backed by leaders of five countries, the Washington Post reported.
Kari Paul - The Guardian
The victims of Facebook's alleged sex trafficking were so fearful of what Facebook might do that they sought and were granted a Restraining Order and Temporary Injunction from the courts.
Facebook responsible for 94% of 69 million child sex abuse images reported by US tech firms
The figures emerge as the UK is among seven nations warning of the impact of end-to-end encryption on public safety online.
Facebook was responsible for 94% of the 69 million child sex abuse images reported by US technology companies last year.
The figures emerged as seven countries, including the UK, published a statement on Sunday warning of the impact of end-to-end encryption on public safety online.
Facebook has previously announced plans to fully encrypt communications in its Messenger app, as well as its Instagram Direct service - on top of WhatsApp, which is already encrypted - meaning no one apart from the sender and recipient can read or modify messages.
The social media site said the changes are designed to improve user privacy on all of its platforms.
But law enforcement agencies fear the move will have a devastating impact on their ability to target paedophiles and protect children online.
But the National Crime Agency (NCA) has warned the number could drop to zero if Facebook presses ahead with end-to-end encryption.
Millions of child sex abuse images have been shared on Facebook
Some 16.9 million referrals were made by US tech firms to the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) last year, including 69 million images of children being abused - up 50% on the previous year.
Some 94% of the reports, which include the worst category of images, came from Facebook, Home Office officials said.
Robert Jones, the NCA director responsible for tackling child sexual abuse, said of the plan: "The lights go out, the door gets slammed, and we lose all of that insight. It is as simple as that.
"And nothing, you know we're relying on the best technical expertise... in the UK, the same people that keep the UK safe against terrorists, hostile states, cyber attacks, are telling us there is no viable alternative. I believe them. And I am deeply concerned."
The NCA believes there are at least 300,000 people in the UK who pose a sexual threat to children, with 86,832 UK-related referrals to NCMEC last year, including 52% from Facebook and 11% from Instagram.
Mr Jones said industry reporting led to the arrest of more than 4,500 offenders and the safeguarding of around 6,000 children in the UK in the year to June 2020.
He continued: "The end-to-end encryption model that's being proposed takes out of the game one of the most successful ways for us to identify leads, and that layers on more complexity to our investigations, our digital media, our digital forensics, our profiling of individuals and our live intelligence leads, which allow us to identify victims and safeguard them.
"What we risk losing with these changes is the content, which gives us the intelligence leads to pursue those offenders and rescue those children."
Home Office officials say Facebook has not published credible plans to protect child safety a year on from Home Secretary Priti Patel's open letter to the firm's co-founder Mark Zuckerberg asking it to halt its end-to-end encryption proposals.
A statement signed by Ms Patel, along with the US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India and Japan - whose populations represent around a fifth of Facebook's two billion global users - is calling for tech companies to ensure they don't blind themselves to criminality on their platforms.
Ms Patel said: "We owe it to all of our citizens, especially our children, to ensure their safety by continuing to unmask sexual predators and terrorists operating online."
The statement calls for public safety to be embedded in systems, for law enforcement to be given access to content, and for engagement with governments.
It reads: "Encryption is an existential anchor of trust in the digital world and we do not support counter-productive and dangerous approaches that would materially weaken or limit security systems
"Particular implementations of encryption technology, however, pose significant challenges to public safety, including to highly vulnerable members of our societies like sexually exploited children."
Sky News, Tom Gillespie - October 12, 2020
The figures emerge as the UK is among seven nations warning of the impact of end-to-end encryption on public safety online.
Facebook was responsible for 94% of the 69 million child sex abuse images reported by US technology companies last year.
The figures emerged as seven countries, including the UK, published a statement on Sunday warning of the impact of end-to-end encryption on public safety online.
Facebook has previously announced plans to fully encrypt communications in its Messenger app, as well as its Instagram Direct service - on top of WhatsApp, which is already encrypted - meaning no one apart from the sender and recipient can read or modify messages.
The social media site said the changes are designed to improve user privacy on all of its platforms.
But law enforcement agencies fear the move will have a devastating impact on their ability to target paedophiles and protect children online.
But the National Crime Agency (NCA) has warned the number could drop to zero if Facebook presses ahead with end-to-end encryption.
Millions of child sex abuse images have been shared on Facebook
Some 16.9 million referrals were made by US tech firms to the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) last year, including 69 million images of children being abused - up 50% on the previous year.
Some 94% of the reports, which include the worst category of images, came from Facebook, Home Office officials said.
Robert Jones, the NCA director responsible for tackling child sexual abuse, said of the plan: "The lights go out, the door gets slammed, and we lose all of that insight. It is as simple as that.
"And nothing, you know we're relying on the best technical expertise... in the UK, the same people that keep the UK safe against terrorists, hostile states, cyber attacks, are telling us there is no viable alternative. I believe them. And I am deeply concerned."
The NCA believes there are at least 300,000 people in the UK who pose a sexual threat to children, with 86,832 UK-related referrals to NCMEC last year, including 52% from Facebook and 11% from Instagram.
Mr Jones said industry reporting led to the arrest of more than 4,500 offenders and the safeguarding of around 6,000 children in the UK in the year to June 2020.
He continued: "The end-to-end encryption model that's being proposed takes out of the game one of the most successful ways for us to identify leads, and that layers on more complexity to our investigations, our digital media, our digital forensics, our profiling of individuals and our live intelligence leads, which allow us to identify victims and safeguard them.
"What we risk losing with these changes is the content, which gives us the intelligence leads to pursue those offenders and rescue those children."
Home Office officials say Facebook has not published credible plans to protect child safety a year on from Home Secretary Priti Patel's open letter to the firm's co-founder Mark Zuckerberg asking it to halt its end-to-end encryption proposals.
A statement signed by Ms Patel, along with the US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India and Japan - whose populations represent around a fifth of Facebook's two billion global users - is calling for tech companies to ensure they don't blind themselves to criminality on their platforms.
Ms Patel said: "We owe it to all of our citizens, especially our children, to ensure their safety by continuing to unmask sexual predators and terrorists operating online."
The statement calls for public safety to be embedded in systems, for law enforcement to be given access to content, and for engagement with governments.
It reads: "Encryption is an existential anchor of trust in the digital world and we do not support counter-productive and dangerous approaches that would materially weaken or limit security systems
"Particular implementations of encryption technology, however, pose significant challenges to public safety, including to highly vulnerable members of our societies like sexually exploited children."
Sky News, Tom Gillespie - October 12, 2020
Paedophiles using secret Facebook groups to swap images
Paedophiles are using secret groups on Facebook to post and swap obscene images of children, the BBC has found.
Settings on the social network mean the groups are invisible to most users and only members can see the content.
Children's Commissioner for England Anne Longfield said Facebook was not doing enough to police the groups and protect children.
Facebook's head of public policy told the BBC he was committed to removing "content that shouldn't be there".
A BBC investigation found a number of secret groups, created by and run for men with a sexual interest in children, including one being administered by a convicted paedophile who was still on the sex offenders' register.
The groups have names that give a clear indication of their content and contain pornographic and highly suggestive images, many purporting to be of children. They also have sexually explicit comments posted by users.
We found pages specialising in pictures of girls in school uniform - accompanied by obscene posts.
Images appeared to be stolen from newspapers, blogs and even clothing catalogues, while some were photographs taken secretly, and up close, in public places. One user had even posted a video of a children's dance show.
- by Angus Crawford BBC News
Paedophiles are using secret groups on Facebook to post and swap obscene images of children, the BBC has found.
Settings on the social network mean the groups are invisible to most users and only members can see the content.
Children's Commissioner for England Anne Longfield said Facebook was not doing enough to police the groups and protect children.
Facebook's head of public policy told the BBC he was committed to removing "content that shouldn't be there".
A BBC investigation found a number of secret groups, created by and run for men with a sexual interest in children, including one being administered by a convicted paedophile who was still on the sex offenders' register.
The groups have names that give a clear indication of their content and contain pornographic and highly suggestive images, many purporting to be of children. They also have sexually explicit comments posted by users.
We found pages specialising in pictures of girls in school uniform - accompanied by obscene posts.
Images appeared to be stolen from newspapers, blogs and even clothing catalogues, while some were photographs taken secretly, and up close, in public places. One user had even posted a video of a children's dance show.
- by Angus Crawford BBC News
Texas Supreme Court Ruling Against Facebook In Sex Trafficking Case Threatens Key Legal Shield For Social Media Platforms
Facebook can’t be sued for what people say on its platform, but it can be for letting sex traffickers get away with using the site as a recruiting tool, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday, opening the door to more lawsuits and setting up a possible appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court that could erode a key legal protection for social media companies.
FACTS
The ruling allows civil lawsuits to proceed that were filed by three victims of sex trafficking against Facebook for allegedly failing to stop child predators from using its messaging services to recruit them.
Facebook had argued that it was not responsible for what users say on its site based on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which shields social media companies from liability for bad things its users do, like making death threats.
The Texas Supreme Court justices ruled that Facebook’s argument did not apply because Congress in 2018 passed exceptions to Section 230 that permit civil lawsuits against media platforms for violations of state and federal human trafficking laws.
Facebook is “reviewing” the ruling and “considering potential next steps,” a spokesperson told Forbes.
The decision was 6-0, though two justices did not take part.
CRUCIAL QUOTE
“Holding internet platforms accountable for the words or actions of their users is one thing, and the federal precedent uniformly dictates that section 230 does not allow it. Holding internet platforms accountable for their own misdeeds is quite another thing,” Justice Jimmy Blacklock wrote for the majority.
KEY BACKGROUND
The court’s ruling could have an impact beyond the three lawsuits it involves, says attorney Carrie Goldberg, who has sued social media companies for not protecting users from predators and abusers. “This puts pressure on the tech [companies] to reform,” she said. If Facebook is more vulnerable to being sued, it will make its products safer to avoid lawsuits, she said, just as carmakers and baby crib makers have done: “Because there’s major financial consequences” for losing. Goldberg, who is representing clients pursuing legal action against Facebook and Instagram right now, said the relative lack of case law against social media companies for the harms that occur on their platforms means that the Texas ruling—despite only setting precedent for Texas—is likely to be cited in opinions in other states.
WHAT TO WATCH FOR
Facebook can appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, but that would give the court the chance to issue a ruling that goes further than the child trafficking exceptions to Section 230, potentially imperiling a key legal shield for the tech industry. “If you open it up, they could narrow the whole scope of Section 230,” said Jeff Kosseff, a cybersecurity law professor at the United States Naval Academy and the author of a book on the history of the law. He noted that Justice Clarence Thomas has said he believes Section 230 is too broadly interpreted in favor of the tech companies.
Forbes - Graison Dangor June 25, 2021
FACTS
The ruling allows civil lawsuits to proceed that were filed by three victims of sex trafficking against Facebook for allegedly failing to stop child predators from using its messaging services to recruit them.
Facebook had argued that it was not responsible for what users say on its site based on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which shields social media companies from liability for bad things its users do, like making death threats.
The Texas Supreme Court justices ruled that Facebook’s argument did not apply because Congress in 2018 passed exceptions to Section 230 that permit civil lawsuits against media platforms for violations of state and federal human trafficking laws.
Facebook is “reviewing” the ruling and “considering potential next steps,” a spokesperson told Forbes.
The decision was 6-0, though two justices did not take part.
CRUCIAL QUOTE
“Holding internet platforms accountable for the words or actions of their users is one thing, and the federal precedent uniformly dictates that section 230 does not allow it. Holding internet platforms accountable for their own misdeeds is quite another thing,” Justice Jimmy Blacklock wrote for the majority.
KEY BACKGROUND
The court’s ruling could have an impact beyond the three lawsuits it involves, says attorney Carrie Goldberg, who has sued social media companies for not protecting users from predators and abusers. “This puts pressure on the tech [companies] to reform,” she said. If Facebook is more vulnerable to being sued, it will make its products safer to avoid lawsuits, she said, just as carmakers and baby crib makers have done: “Because there’s major financial consequences” for losing. Goldberg, who is representing clients pursuing legal action against Facebook and Instagram right now, said the relative lack of case law against social media companies for the harms that occur on their platforms means that the Texas ruling—despite only setting precedent for Texas—is likely to be cited in opinions in other states.
WHAT TO WATCH FOR
Facebook can appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, but that would give the court the chance to issue a ruling that goes further than the child trafficking exceptions to Section 230, potentially imperiling a key legal shield for the tech industry. “If you open it up, they could narrow the whole scope of Section 230,” said Jeff Kosseff, a cybersecurity law professor at the United States Naval Academy and the author of a book on the history of the law. He noted that Justice Clarence Thomas has said he believes Section 230 is too broadly interpreted in favor of the tech companies.
Forbes - Graison Dangor June 25, 2021
Facebook reported more than 20 million child sexual abuse images in 2020, more than any other company
The material was flagged to the NCMEC, a charity that fights child sexual abuse.
Facebook reported more than 20 million child sexual abuse images on its platform in 2020, according to a new report by the National Council for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).
According to the report released Wednesday, Facebook recorded 20,307,216 instances for child sexual exploitation on its platforms in 2020. The figures cover Instagram as well as the main Facebook site.
Insider first reported the figures in January, when Facebook confirmed the number. The full report has figures for other companies, and shows that Facebook made more than 35 times as many reports as the next company on the list, Google.
Facebook's platforms contain the vast majority of all child sexual content flagged to the NCMEC, which represent a 31% increase on the 16 million images reported to them by the platform in 2019.
Facebook highlighted its proactive policies and use of technology to detect and remove child exploitation material in response to the increase.
"Using industry-leading technology, over 99% of child exploitation content we remove from Facebook and Instagram is found and taken down before it's reported to us," said a spokesperson to Insider in January.
Other sites remove material after it is found or flagged to them, but don't have proactive policies to find it.
Following Facebook, the platforms with the most reports were:
•Google with 546,704.
•Snapchat with 144,095.
•Microsoft with 96,776.
•Twitter with 65,062.
•TikTok with 22,692.
•Omegle (a video and text chat platform) with 20,265.
Mindgeek, the company that owns porn websites including PornHub, logged 13,229 reports. Last year a series of credit card companies severed ties with Pornhub after it was revealed by The New York Times' that the site was hosting child sexual exploitation videos.
Facebook said in a blog post ahead of the release of the NCMEC report that it was building new tools to track down child sexual abuse material, and that most of the material it identified was old material being shared or re-sent.
"We found that more than 90 percent of this content was the same as or visually similar to previously reported content," said the post.
"And copies of just six videos were responsible for more than half of the child exploitative content we reported in that time period. While this data indicates that the number of pieces of content does not equal the number of victims, and that the same content, potentially slightly altered, is being shared repeatedly, one victim of this horrible crime is one too many."
The NCMEC told Insider in January that COVID-19 lockdowns were likely among the factors behind the overall increase in the amount of material reported to them in 2020.
Vulnerable children were less able to get help, and there was a new trend of abuse being livestreamed on demand, said the NCMEC at the time.
The 160 companies signed up to the NCMEC's child sexual abuse reporting mechanism voluntarily share the information, which is then used by law enforcement to investigate people committing the crimes.
Insider by Tom Porter Feb 26, 2021
The material was flagged to the NCMEC, a charity that fights child sexual abuse.
Facebook reported more than 20 million child sexual abuse images on its platform in 2020, according to a new report by the National Council for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).
According to the report released Wednesday, Facebook recorded 20,307,216 instances for child sexual exploitation on its platforms in 2020. The figures cover Instagram as well as the main Facebook site.
Insider first reported the figures in January, when Facebook confirmed the number. The full report has figures for other companies, and shows that Facebook made more than 35 times as many reports as the next company on the list, Google.
Facebook's platforms contain the vast majority of all child sexual content flagged to the NCMEC, which represent a 31% increase on the 16 million images reported to them by the platform in 2019.
Facebook highlighted its proactive policies and use of technology to detect and remove child exploitation material in response to the increase.
"Using industry-leading technology, over 99% of child exploitation content we remove from Facebook and Instagram is found and taken down before it's reported to us," said a spokesperson to Insider in January.
Other sites remove material after it is found or flagged to them, but don't have proactive policies to find it.
Following Facebook, the platforms with the most reports were:
•Google with 546,704.
•Snapchat with 144,095.
•Microsoft with 96,776.
•Twitter with 65,062.
•TikTok with 22,692.
•Omegle (a video and text chat platform) with 20,265.
Mindgeek, the company that owns porn websites including PornHub, logged 13,229 reports. Last year a series of credit card companies severed ties with Pornhub after it was revealed by The New York Times' that the site was hosting child sexual exploitation videos.
Facebook said in a blog post ahead of the release of the NCMEC report that it was building new tools to track down child sexual abuse material, and that most of the material it identified was old material being shared or re-sent.
"We found that more than 90 percent of this content was the same as or visually similar to previously reported content," said the post.
"And copies of just six videos were responsible for more than half of the child exploitative content we reported in that time period. While this data indicates that the number of pieces of content does not equal the number of victims, and that the same content, potentially slightly altered, is being shared repeatedly, one victim of this horrible crime is one too many."
The NCMEC told Insider in January that COVID-19 lockdowns were likely among the factors behind the overall increase in the amount of material reported to them in 2020.
Vulnerable children were less able to get help, and there was a new trend of abuse being livestreamed on demand, said the NCMEC at the time.
The 160 companies signed up to the NCMEC's child sexual abuse reporting mechanism voluntarily share the information, which is then used by law enforcement to investigate people committing the crimes.
Insider by Tom Porter Feb 26, 2021
Over half of online recruitment in active sex trafficking cases last year occurred on Facebook, report says
The majority of online recruitment in active sex trafficking cases in the U.S. last year took place on Facebook, according to the Human Trafficking Institute's 2020 Federal Human Trafficking Report.
"The internet has become the dominant tool that traffickers use to recruit victims, and they often recruit them on a number of very common social networking websites," Human Trafficking Institute CEO Victor Boutros said on CBSN Wednesday. "Facebook overwhelmingly is used by traffickers to recruit victims in active sex trafficking cases."
Active cases include those in which defendants were charged in 2020, as well as those in which defendants were charged in previous years and charges were still pending in trial last year or the case was on appeal.
Data from the last two decades included in the human trafficking report showed that 30% of all victims identified in federal sex trafficking cases since 2000 were recruited online.
In 2020 in the U.S., 59% of online recruitment of identified victims in active cases took place on Facebook alone. The report also states that 65% of identified child sex trafficking victims recruited on social media were recruited through Facebook.
The tech giant responded to the report's findings in a statement to CBS News: "Sex trafficking and child exploitation are abhorrent and we don't allow them on Facebook. We have policies and technology to prevent these types of abuses and take down any content that violates our rules."
The report revealed that children accounted for 53% of identified victims in active criminal human trafficking cases in 2020, and women made up a large majority. Forty-four percent of victims of sex trafficking were women, and half were girls.
While the internet has been the most common place of recruitment since 2013, including 41% of active cases in 2020, the street, stores and cults were also cited by the group as targets of human traffickers.
Researchers note that trends also reflect the DOJ's methods of tracking down cases.
"These data do not reflect the prevalence of online solicitation in sex trafficking schemes beyond those federally prosecuted. To be sure, the internet is implicated in many sex trafficking situations, but the high numbers of federal prosecutions involving internet solicitation are equally if not more reflective of the strategies law enforcement use to investigate these crimes," the report states.
The majority of victims in active sex trafficking cases in 2020 were targeted with a fraudulent job offer, the report notes, followed by feigned romance. The data is based on the 602 victims identified in active sex trafficking cases for whom details of their recruitment were known.
"Traffickers often prey on existing vulnerabilities of victims," Boutros said. "A lot of times we imagine that traffickers are these large group syndicates or networks, exploiting a huge number of victims. But actually most traffickers are not operating as an organized crime enterprise. It is mostly individual traffickers that are operating individually and often exploiting a small handful of victims at a time."
Editor's Note: This story has been updated to correct a statistic on child victims. First published on June 9, 2021
"The internet has become the dominant tool that traffickers use to recruit victims, and they often recruit them on a number of very common social networking websites," Human Trafficking Institute CEO Victor Boutros said on CBSN Wednesday. "Facebook overwhelmingly is used by traffickers to recruit victims in active sex trafficking cases."
Active cases include those in which defendants were charged in 2020, as well as those in which defendants were charged in previous years and charges were still pending in trial last year or the case was on appeal.
Data from the last two decades included in the human trafficking report showed that 30% of all victims identified in federal sex trafficking cases since 2000 were recruited online.
In 2020 in the U.S., 59% of online recruitment of identified victims in active cases took place on Facebook alone. The report also states that 65% of identified child sex trafficking victims recruited on social media were recruited through Facebook.
The tech giant responded to the report's findings in a statement to CBS News: "Sex trafficking and child exploitation are abhorrent and we don't allow them on Facebook. We have policies and technology to prevent these types of abuses and take down any content that violates our rules."
The report revealed that children accounted for 53% of identified victims in active criminal human trafficking cases in 2020, and women made up a large majority. Forty-four percent of victims of sex trafficking were women, and half were girls.
While the internet has been the most common place of recruitment since 2013, including 41% of active cases in 2020, the street, stores and cults were also cited by the group as targets of human traffickers.
Researchers note that trends also reflect the DOJ's methods of tracking down cases.
"These data do not reflect the prevalence of online solicitation in sex trafficking schemes beyond those federally prosecuted. To be sure, the internet is implicated in many sex trafficking situations, but the high numbers of federal prosecutions involving internet solicitation are equally if not more reflective of the strategies law enforcement use to investigate these crimes," the report states.
The majority of victims in active sex trafficking cases in 2020 were targeted with a fraudulent job offer, the report notes, followed by feigned romance. The data is based on the 602 victims identified in active sex trafficking cases for whom details of their recruitment were known.
"Traffickers often prey on existing vulnerabilities of victims," Boutros said. "A lot of times we imagine that traffickers are these large group syndicates or networks, exploiting a huge number of victims. But actually most traffickers are not operating as an organized crime enterprise. It is mostly individual traffickers that are operating individually and often exploiting a small handful of victims at a time."
Editor's Note: This story has been updated to correct a statistic on child victims. First published on June 9, 2021
Facebook Must Face Claims Linked to Sex Trafficking, Judge Says
Texas Supreme Court rejects company bid to dismiss lawsuits
Women claim abusers use website to lure teens to prostitution
Facebook Inc. must face lawsuits filed by three women claiming they were forced into prostitution as teenagers by abusers who used the social-media site to ensnare girls.
Justice James Blacklock of the Texas Supreme Court said in a ruling Friday the women can sue Facebook under a state law that allows legal action against those who benefit from sex trafficking. But he said they can’t pursue claims under federal law that Facebook failed to warn minors and take measures to block sex trafficking activity on its site.
Facebook hasn’t put effective safeguards in place to block sex traffickers because it benefits from advertising to more than 2 billion users, according to the lawsuits. The women claim the company won’t use advertising space for public service announcements regarding the dangers of sex trafficking.
Facebook appealed to the Supreme Court after it failed to get the complaints thrown out in district court and the Fourteenth Court of Appeals in Texas. The company argued that it is protected under Section 230 of the U.S. Communications Decency Act, which shields websites from lawsuits over what users post online.
The judge rejected that argument. “The statutory claim for knowingly or intentionally benefiting from participation in a human-trafficking venture is not barred by Section 230,” the judge ruled.
Facebook didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Blacklock sent the case back to the district court for further proceedings and suggested that the Section 230 provisions written in 1996 may be outdated and ripe for Congress to overhaul.
“Perhaps advances in technology now allow online platforms to more easily police their users’ posts,” Blacklock said. “On the other hand, perhaps subjecting online platforms to greater liability for their users’ injurious activity would reduce freedom of speech on the internet by encouraging platforms to censor ‘dangerous’ content to avoid lawsuits.”
In March, a federal court in Houston ruled that Salesforce.com must face state and federal over sex-trafficking facilitation complaints by several young women who said their pimps repeatedly sold them for sex through Backpage.com classified ads.
Bloomberg By Malathi Nayak June 25, 2021— With assistance by Laurel Brubaker Calkins
Texas Supreme Court rejects company bid to dismiss lawsuits
Women claim abusers use website to lure teens to prostitution
Facebook Inc. must face lawsuits filed by three women claiming they were forced into prostitution as teenagers by abusers who used the social-media site to ensnare girls.
Justice James Blacklock of the Texas Supreme Court said in a ruling Friday the women can sue Facebook under a state law that allows legal action against those who benefit from sex trafficking. But he said they can’t pursue claims under federal law that Facebook failed to warn minors and take measures to block sex trafficking activity on its site.
Facebook hasn’t put effective safeguards in place to block sex traffickers because it benefits from advertising to more than 2 billion users, according to the lawsuits. The women claim the company won’t use advertising space for public service announcements regarding the dangers of sex trafficking.
Facebook appealed to the Supreme Court after it failed to get the complaints thrown out in district court and the Fourteenth Court of Appeals in Texas. The company argued that it is protected under Section 230 of the U.S. Communications Decency Act, which shields websites from lawsuits over what users post online.
The judge rejected that argument. “The statutory claim for knowingly or intentionally benefiting from participation in a human-trafficking venture is not barred by Section 230,” the judge ruled.
Facebook didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Blacklock sent the case back to the district court for further proceedings and suggested that the Section 230 provisions written in 1996 may be outdated and ripe for Congress to overhaul.
“Perhaps advances in technology now allow online platforms to more easily police their users’ posts,” Blacklock said. “On the other hand, perhaps subjecting online platforms to greater liability for their users’ injurious activity would reduce freedom of speech on the internet by encouraging platforms to censor ‘dangerous’ content to avoid lawsuits.”
In March, a federal court in Houston ruled that Salesforce.com must face state and federal over sex-trafficking facilitation complaints by several young women who said their pimps repeatedly sold them for sex through Backpage.com classified ads.
Bloomberg By Malathi Nayak June 25, 2021— With assistance by Laurel Brubaker Calkins
Teen sex trafficking victims from Houston land major court win against Facebook
The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday in a Houston case that Facebook is not a “lawless no-man’s-land” and can be held liable for the conduct of pimps who use its technology to recruit and prey on children.
The ruling came in a trio of Houston civil actions involving teenage trafficking victims who met their abusive pimps through Facebook’s messaging functions. They sued the California-based social media juggernaut for negligence and product liability, saying that Facebook failed to warn about or attempt to prevent sex trafficking from taking place on its internet platforms. The suits also alleged that Facebook benefited from the sexual exploitation of trafficking victims.
The justices said trafficking victims can move forward with lawsuits on the grounds that Facebook violated a provision of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code passed in 2009.
Facebook lawyers argued the company was shielded from liability under Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act, which states that what users say or write online is not akin to a publisher conveying the same message. Essentially, they said, Facebook is immune to these types of lawsuits.
The majority wrote, “We do not understand Section 230 to ‘create a lawless no-man’s-land on the Internet’ in which states are powerless to impose liability on websites that knowingly or intentionally participate in the evil of online human trafficking.”
“Holding internet platforms accountable for the words or actions of their users is one thing, and the federal precedent uniformly dictates that Section 230 does not allow it,” the opinion said. “Holding internet platforms accountable for their own misdeeds is quite another thing. This is particularly the case for human trafficking.”
The justices explained that Congress recently amended Section 230 to add the possibility of civil liability for websites that violate state and federal human-trafficking laws. They said under the amended law states may protect residents from internet companies that knowingly or intentionally participate in human trafficking through their action or inaction.
The lawsuits were brought by three Houston women recruited as teens through Facebook apps and trafficked as a result of those online connections. The young women said in court filings that the social media giant cloaked traffickers with credibility and provided “a point of first contact between sex traffickers and these children” and “an unrestricted platform to stalk, exploit, recruit, groom, and extort children into the sex trade.”
One young woman who sued was 15 when a friend of a mutual friend reached out to her on Facebook in 2012. The adult who began messaging her had images on his profile of “scantily-clad young women in sexual positions” with money stuffed in their mouths and “other deeply troubling content,” the justices wrote. She confided in him and he complimented her, offering her a modeling job. After they met in person, the trafficker posted photos of her in prostitution ads on Backpage, an online platform shuttered due to its promotion of human trafficking. The young woman said she was “raped, beaten, and forced into further sex trafficking.”
Another plaintiff was 14 in 2017 when a man contacted her on Instagram, another Facebook property. The pimp in this instance lured her with “false promises of love and a better future.” She said the easy access to her through social media made it possible for the man to traffic her, using Instagram to advertise her as a prostitute and set up “dates,” during which she was raped numerous times. After the teen was rescued from his operation, traffickers kept using her profile to lure in other minors, according to the ruling. In this case the family says the girl’s mother reported what had happened to Facebook and the company never responded.
The third girl who sued identified herself as being 14 on Instagram in 2016. A man of about 30 whom she didn’t know sent her a friend request on Instagram. They exchanged messages for two years in what plaintiffs said was a calculated effort to “groom” her and prepare her for sex-trafficking. In March 2018, the man asked the teen to leave home and meet him. He brought the girl to a motel, photographed her and posted images in Backpage ads, according to the opinion. The johns who responded to the post raped her.
Houston Chronicle Gabrielle Banks June 26, 2021
The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday in a Houston case that Facebook is not a “lawless no-man’s-land” and can be held liable for the conduct of pimps who use its technology to recruit and prey on children.
The ruling came in a trio of Houston civil actions involving teenage trafficking victims who met their abusive pimps through Facebook’s messaging functions. They sued the California-based social media juggernaut for negligence and product liability, saying that Facebook failed to warn about or attempt to prevent sex trafficking from taking place on its internet platforms. The suits also alleged that Facebook benefited from the sexual exploitation of trafficking victims.
The justices said trafficking victims can move forward with lawsuits on the grounds that Facebook violated a provision of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code passed in 2009.
Facebook lawyers argued the company was shielded from liability under Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act, which states that what users say or write online is not akin to a publisher conveying the same message. Essentially, they said, Facebook is immune to these types of lawsuits.
The majority wrote, “We do not understand Section 230 to ‘create a lawless no-man’s-land on the Internet’ in which states are powerless to impose liability on websites that knowingly or intentionally participate in the evil of online human trafficking.”
“Holding internet platforms accountable for the words or actions of their users is one thing, and the federal precedent uniformly dictates that Section 230 does not allow it,” the opinion said. “Holding internet platforms accountable for their own misdeeds is quite another thing. This is particularly the case for human trafficking.”
The justices explained that Congress recently amended Section 230 to add the possibility of civil liability for websites that violate state and federal human-trafficking laws. They said under the amended law states may protect residents from internet companies that knowingly or intentionally participate in human trafficking through their action or inaction.
The lawsuits were brought by three Houston women recruited as teens through Facebook apps and trafficked as a result of those online connections. The young women said in court filings that the social media giant cloaked traffickers with credibility and provided “a point of first contact between sex traffickers and these children” and “an unrestricted platform to stalk, exploit, recruit, groom, and extort children into the sex trade.”
One young woman who sued was 15 when a friend of a mutual friend reached out to her on Facebook in 2012. The adult who began messaging her had images on his profile of “scantily-clad young women in sexual positions” with money stuffed in their mouths and “other deeply troubling content,” the justices wrote. She confided in him and he complimented her, offering her a modeling job. After they met in person, the trafficker posted photos of her in prostitution ads on Backpage, an online platform shuttered due to its promotion of human trafficking. The young woman said she was “raped, beaten, and forced into further sex trafficking.”
Another plaintiff was 14 in 2017 when a man contacted her on Instagram, another Facebook property. The pimp in this instance lured her with “false promises of love and a better future.” She said the easy access to her through social media made it possible for the man to traffic her, using Instagram to advertise her as a prostitute and set up “dates,” during which she was raped numerous times. After the teen was rescued from his operation, traffickers kept using her profile to lure in other minors, according to the ruling. In this case the family says the girl’s mother reported what had happened to Facebook and the company never responded.
The third girl who sued identified herself as being 14 on Instagram in 2016. A man of about 30 whom she didn’t know sent her a friend request on Instagram. They exchanged messages for two years in what plaintiffs said was a calculated effort to “groom” her and prepare her for sex-trafficking. In March 2018, the man asked the teen to leave home and meet him. He brought the girl to a motel, photographed her and posted images in Backpage ads, according to the opinion. The johns who responded to the post raped her.
Houston Chronicle Gabrielle Banks June 26, 2021
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This website will be an ongoing repository of fact gathering and reporting of a multitude of news articles pertaining to Facebook’s dangerous activities that negatively affect our very existence.
Facebook Killing People, Facebook Sex Trafficking, Facebook Human Smuggling, Facebook Discrimination, Facebook Racism, Facebook Child Abuse, Facebook Pedophiles and Facebook Whistleblowers are of great concern to everyone and we should all be leery of Facebook’s actions against free people everywhere!
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