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

QuestionWhitehouse asks whether Meta believes it should have absolute Section 230 immunity from suits like Doe v. Twitter regardless of how badly it fails to remove reported CSAM or stop its distribution.

ResponseMeta touts its decade of CSAM policies, technology, and specialized teams, notes it made over 26 million NCMEC reports in 2022 (more than the rest of the industry combined), and argues platforms should keep Section 230 protection as long as they maintain robust detection/removal practices rather than face strict liability for content that evades detection.