Meta Allegedly Failed To Overcome Child Harassment Content

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JAKARTA The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) conducted joint research with the Canadian Child Protection Center regarding recommendations on the Meta platform. The results show that Meta has not handled child exploitation content.

The WSJ said that the Meta platform still promotes Facebook groups, Instagram hashtags, and accounts showing child sexual abuse material. From these findings, Meta was accused of being slow in overcoming the spread of child exploitation content.

Meanwhile, Canada's Child Protection Center said that accounts on Instagram with a total of 10 million followers were still sharing videos of sexual abuse on children since a few months ago and to date.

The results of this test made Canada's Child Protection Center even more hesitant about the handling of Meta. Although Meta says its platform is trying to limit the presence of predators, test results suggest otherwise.

In line with this issue, the European Commission urged Meta to return to provide reports on how they deal with the spread of sexual abuse content in children. This order must be fulfilled until December 22nd.

Not only reports regarding content handling, but Meta must also provide information regarding Instagram's recommendation system that shows inappropriate content and content amplification that is considered dangerous.

Meta must fulfill the order until the specified deadline. If Meta ignores orders from the European Commission, the company will undergo a formal investigation under EU (EU) online content rules.