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Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis (QFR Responses)

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Questioner: Richard Durbin

Narrative: Profits over SafetyNarrative: ConcealmentHarm: Child sexual exploitation
Q. · Question

Richard Durbin

A. · Response

Respondent not recorded

QuestionHow has Meta measured the impact of its ~21,000 layoffs (including trust and safety staff) on its efforts to stop online child sexual exploitation?

ResponseMeta disputes that trust and safety was disproportionately affected by the 2023 layoffs but provides no studies, reports, or data measuring the cuts' actual impact on child exploitation efforts, despite being asked to do so.