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

QuestionCiting a Tech Transparency Project report that Meta's own AI ad tool generated and approved harmful images (vaping, "pill party") in ads targeted at 13-17 year olds, Grassley asks how often Meta quality-checks its child-safety ad policies, which teams do this work, staffing levels, and enforcement response.

ResponseMeta does not give the specific frequency/staffing/enforcement-speed figures requested; it describes its overall ~40,000-person safety and security workforce, acknowledges its generative AI tool can produce "inaccurate or inappropriate outputs," and says it uses blocklists (e.g., blocking "young + vape") to try to prevent this.