“Meta is launching new encryption technology for direct messages on Facebook and Instagram amid protests by the social media giant’s former employees warning the updated system makes it more difficult to track down online child predators.
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Zuckerberg’s employees took issue with encrypting FB messages when [it] was […] announced in March 2019, prompting workers to resign in protest.
The 39-year-old Meta Chief Executive said at the time that “the future of communication will increasingly shift to private, encrypted services where people can be confident what they say to each other stays secure.”
Former engineer director David Erb quit […] in protest […]. In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Erb, who ran FB’s “community integrity” team details how adults find children to prey upon using FB’s “People You May Know” algorithm.
“It was a hundred times worse than any of us expected,” he [said]. “There were millions of pedophiles targeting tens of millions of children.”
Erb warned his superiors that encrypting direct messages on Facebook would provide a safe haven for predators […].
Meta spokesperson Andy Stone predictably downplays his company’s role in facilitating pedophilia and minimizes his former employees’ complaints […].
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As the former Meta engineer predicted, months later in May 2020, DHS investigators were notified of Meta users [who] were using the encryption technology to prey on children.
In one instance, Karl Quitter, a Chicago man, exploited the new tech to solicit sexually explicit photos and videos of at least 9 teenage girls in the Philippines.
Using the alias “Mathew Jones,” Quitter “preyed on the victims’ financial difficulties, using money transfers to the victims’ families to entice the girls to take the sexually explicit images,” according to federal prosecutors.
In an encrypted message to one 16-year-old victim in 2020, Quitter bribed the underaged girl, promising to send money to her family for medicine and food if she acquiesced to his demands.
“If u do what I tell you … I will make sure u can buy food for 2 weeks and your medication,” Quitter said in the message. “Think of your little sister that she can e[a]t for 2 weeks everyday 3 meals a day and u get well.”
[…] investigators turned Quitter’s messages over to authorities and he was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting children.
In June, researchers found Instagram’s […] algorithms linked to and even promote a “vast pedophile network” that advertises the sale of illicit “child-sex material” on the platform.
Instagram allowed users to search by hashtags related to child-sex abuse, including graphic terms such as #pedowhore, #preteensex, #pedobait and #mnsfw — the latter an acronym meaning “minors not safe for work,” researchers at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst told the Wall Street Journal.
As Gateway Pundit has reported, New Mexico AG Raul Torrez is suing Meta and Zuckerberg after authorities uncovered a series of communications among sex predators […], utilizing the seemingly innocuous term “PIZZA” as a code word to obscure their illicit activities on Meta.
“Our investigation into Meta’s social media platforms demonstrates that they are not safe spaces for children but rather prime locations for predators to trade child pornography and solicit minors for sex,” Attorney General Torrez said in a statement.
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During the past several months, the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office launched an undercover operation posing as minors under 14 on Meta’s platforms. This sting operation led to disturbing findings, where it was discovered that:
- Proactively served and directed to underage users a stream of egregious, sexually explicit images — even when the child expressed no interest in this content.
- Enabled dozens of adults to find, contact, and press children into providing sexually explicit pictures of themselves or participate in pornographic videos.
- Recommended that children join unmoderated FB groups devoted to facilitating commercial sex.
- Allowed Facebook and Insta users to find, share, and sell an enormous volume of child pornography.
- Allowed a fictitious mother to offer her 13-year-old daughter for sale to sex traffickers and create a professional page [for child] to share revenue […].
You can read the disturbing full 228-page complaint on the NM Attorney General’s website.
Zuckerberg funds stolen elections, supports pedophiles and makes his money off your account[s].“
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