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

QuestionCiting the June 2023 WSJ/Stanford/UMass Amherst investigation finding that Meta's recommendation systems connect pedophiles to content sellers due to "weak enforcement and design features," and the "Incest" group moderation failure, Lee asks what Meta has done to preemptively dismantle pedophile networks.

ResponseMeta describes a 2023 child-safety task force, expanded coded-language term detection, suspicious-account/Groups detection technology (90,000+ accounts removed Aug-Dec 2023; 190,000+ Groups removed from Search since July 2023; 21,000+ Groups removed for violations; 37 networks/200,000+ accounts disrupted 2020-2023), and participation in the cross-industry Lantern signal-sharing program — without directly addressing the "Incest" group failure.