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

QuestionGrassley asks Meta to detail its revenue/ad spend, how much of that goes to safety and specifically child-safety functions, staffing levels and budgets for child-safety components over 2021-2023, the roles of those teams, and any third parties Meta uses to address CSAM.

ResponseMeta gives topline revenue/net income figures but declines to break out advertising spend on safety specifically; it states it has invested $20B+ in safety/security since 2016 (~$5-6B/year 2021-2023) but cannot isolate a child-safety-specific budget or headcount because "this work is embedded throughout the company," instead describing its child-safety teams' functions, CSAM enforcement statistics, and industry partnerships (Technology Coalition, Project Protect, Lantern, Take It Down, StopNCII, Thorn/NoFiltr).