Surely, it must be time to arrest Mark Zuckerburg and lock him away in a small cave somewhere for the rest of his life! It's not bad enough that he does so little to slow down child sex abuse images, indeed, he enables them at a new level with end-to-end encryption. But he also allows illegal drugs to be sold on his platforms, almost certainly with no age verification for the purchasers. Can there be anyone more evil in the world today?
US lawmakers demand that Mark Zuckerberg
stop illegal drug ads on Facebook, Instagram
“Despite this and your company’s own Community Standards, Meta approved ads throughout 2024 that displayed obvious drug sales.”
A Meta spokesperson directed The Post to a statement given to the Journal two weeks ago.
“Our systems are designed to proactively detect and enforce against violating content, and we reject hundreds of thousands of ads for violating our drug policies,” Meta said in the statement. “We continue to invest resources and further improve our enforcement on this kind of content.”
It seems obvious that Meta has stretched itself much too far and faster than it is able to manage their platforms. Perhaps they need to reduce their reach until the can properly police the criminals using their networks.
The legislators said the drug ads were not buried in the dark web, but approved and monetized by Meta on Instagram, Facebook, Messenger and WhatsApp.
Some of the illegal ads were promoted by social media pages with obvious names, like one called “Ecstasy Meds,” the letter said.
While researchers were easily able to find a score of illegal drug ads, Meta somehow missed them, the legislators said.
The letter included a list of 15 questions related to the drug ads and asked Zuckerberg to respond by Sept. 6.
Meta confirmed to The Post that it received the letter and plans to respond.
In March, the Journal reported that US federal prosecutors were investigating Meta for drug ads found on its platforms. In July, the Journal and the Tech Transparency Project found that Meta was still allowing illicit drug ads on its platforms.
The legislators said they worry about children’s safety, since so many young Americans use Meta platforms.
“In 2022, an average of 22 minors, ages 14 to 18, died in the US each week from drug overdoses,” the letter said. “Fentanyl is often found in counterfeit oxycodone, benzodiazepines, and other prescription pills — all of which have been found on your platforms, including in advertisements.”
The legislators said they have tried to establish data privacy and security protections for American users on Meta platforms but have “been met with friction” from Meta that such protections would disrupt its personalization features.
“If this personalization you are providing is pushing advertisements of illicit drugs to vulnerable Americans, then it is difficult for us to believe that you are not complicit in the trafficking of illicit drugs,” the letter said.
Like I said - he needs to be locked up.
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