Related: A researcher for Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, warned executives at the tech giant that there may be upward of 500,000 cases of sexual exploitation of minors per day on the social media platforms.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/meta-researcher-warned...

Who needs the dark web when Meta exists and is protected by the US government?

Edit: downvotes? Lol

That headline seems like a stretch after reading the article (Fox after all)

> sexually inappropriate messages were sent to "~500k victims per DAY in English markets only."

This sounds like a total count of unsolicited sexual messages sent to all users every day.

See also: the 17-strike policy for sex trafficking.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2025/11/22/meta-strike-po...

I always need to contextualize these numbers:

- there are 2.4B under 18 globally

- which means 500k is 0.02% of all children

- or around 1 in 5000 children globally, per day

- if evenly distributed (which is unlikely), then roughly 7-8% of all kids would feature in Meta exploitation yearly

That suggests very high reoccurrence; but even reoccurrence suggests the total rate remains quite high. A reoccurrence rate of 100x would suggest that roughly 1 in 1000 kids is exploited on Meta, yearly.

Anyway, disturbing.

TBF these easily could be cases of Meta protecting the US government rather than vice versa.