Florida AG Seeks to Grill Zuckerberg on Meta’s Status as ‘Preferred Apps for Human Traffickers’
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been called out over safety concerns on his platforms as his company launches a competitor to Elon Musk’s Twitter, one of the few major social media apps he does not own.
On Monday, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody wrote a letter to Zuckerberg that described the results of an investigation into human trafficking on social media platforms, including his own.
“According to the survey, 146 of the 271 reported instances of social media platform use in human trafficking were attributable to Meta platforms (lnstagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger), more than 53% of the reported instances involved,” she said.
Moody also cited the 2022 Federal Human Trafficking Report to note that extensive human trafficking on Meta platforms is not a recent development.
