A new lawsuit accuses Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta Platforms Inc executives and directors of failing to do enough to stop sex trafficking and child sexual exploitation on Facebook and Instagram.
executives and directors of failing to do enough to stop sex trafficking and child sexual exploitation on Facebook and Instagram.
Given the board's failure to explain how it tries to root out the problem, "the only logical inference is that the board has consciously decided to permit Meta's platforms to promote and facilitate sex/human trafficking," the complaint said."We prohibit human exploitation and child sexual exploitation in no uncertain terms," it said in a statement on Tuesday. "The claims in this lawsuit mischaracterize our efforts to combat this type of activity.
Meta, based in Menlo Park, California, has long faced accusations that its platforms are a haven for sexual misconduct.allowed three people who became entangled with their abusers through Facebook to sue, saying Facebook was not a "lawless no-man's-land" immune from liability for human trafficking. Monday's lawsuit is a derivative case, where shareholders sue officers and directors who allegedly breached their duties.
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