Meta’s record profits last week lay bare a cancer at the soul of the digital economy - a sick incentive to do inhumane things and be rewarded with blockbuster earnings.
Meta’s a historically evil enterprise that just banked US$200 billion through ads while knowingly and systematically spreading harm among half the world’s population.
Today, I’m revealing how:
Instagram connected 1.4 million predators to underage kids in a single day
Meta platforms were used by sex traffickers to recruit children at a mass scale, and
Meta whistleblowers are revealing Zuck and his cruel cronies know, but ignore it.
This investigation is a collaboration with Nathan Witkin, a research associate at the NYU Stern’s Tech and Society Lab.
“A remarkable 23 per cent of all sex trafficking victims in the US, whose recruitment locations we know about, are being recruited on Meta platforms,” he reveals.
The data is buried in millions of words of evidence, depositions, internal Meta mails and strategy documents going to the very top.
Today, I’m publishing the evidence, the numbers, the names and the why - and how fixing it is only a click away.
Meta knows too. After presenting its record results this week, CFO Susan Li dropped a bombshell: “Youth issues and regulatory headwinds will likely result in material losses.”
If you work in media, advertising, government, or policy - and if you’re one of the 3.58 billion people who Meta gloats use its platforms daily - you need to know this.
