Reason #5,489,765 why we can’t have nice things… 

While everyone was pounding wings and pretending to understand what the actual hell Bad Bunny was saying during the Super Bowl, Meta was quietly wandering into a courtroom buzzsaw in New Mexico.

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In short, internal documents suggest Meta’s own people believed there were up to 500,000 cases per day of online sexual exploitation happening across Facebook and Instagram. Per day. In English-speaking markets only. Translation: Perv-flation has gotten way out of control. The number comes from a June 2020 internal email by former child safety exec Malia Andrus, who bluntly told colleagues that predators were targeting “~500k victims per DAY”... and that the real number was likely worse. 

Meanwhile, Roblox be like “those are rookie numbers in this racket.” 

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Additionally, Andrus warned that Meta’s platforms gave predators a tool “nowhere in the history of humanity” had ever existed: the ability to privately contact thousands of people at once. Horrifying. Fast forward to now, New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez is arguing that Meta knowingly exposed kids to sexual exploitation, sextortion schemes, and mental health harm… and kept scaling anyway. Woof. 

As for investigators, they say test accounts posing as minors were immediately flooded with explicit content, creepy outreach, and even a six-figure offer to star in p*rn. Meanwhile, Meta’s age verification tools… a.k.a., the tools meant to stop this… allegedly worked about as well as a P-Diddy’s bouncer. Andrus reportedly warned internally that age prediction systems routinely matched the fake age kids claimed, not their real one. Which is… impressively useless.

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Of course, Meta’s response is the usual greatest hits. Sensationalist claims. Context-free documents. Longstanding commitment to youth safety. The same lines we’ve heard since Congress discovered Facebook wasn’t just for college kids anymore. The problem is that these aren’t whistleblower opinions… they’re internal emails, task forces literally called “Groomers,” and researchers saying out loud that the system is broken.

Meaning, Big Tobacco had nicotine. Big Pharma had opioids. Big Tech had “just connecting people.” Now we get to watch a jury decide whether that line still holds when half a million kids a day are allegedly being served up to predators by the algorithm. Regarding the stock, Meta will likely survive the stock volatility for now. But the long term risk is all under discovery, testimony, and executives under oath explaining why these numbers were known internally and cucked by Zuck. Meaning, keep your eyes on this story and place your bets accordingly, friends. Until next time… 

At the time of publishing, Stocks.News holds positions in Meta as mentioned in the article.