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The BBC discovered that Instagram is running advertisements that promote child sexual abuse material in India. Meta has not yet addressed how the ads escaped content moderation systems or what remedial action is planned.
The BBC discovered that Instagram is running advertisements that promote child sexual abuse material in India. Meta has not addressed how such ads bypassed content moderation or what remedial action is planned. The system that's supposed to prevent this content from being monetized failed.
Advertisements promoting CSAM mean the platform's moderation failed at multiple steps: it didn't catch the material, didn't flag it for removal, and didn't prevent ads from running against it. Meta's silence on how this happened or what it's doing suggests either the company doesn't know or doesn't want to disclose the failures. Ads monetizing CSAM content is a fundamental breakdown in platform safety.
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