{"id":1971479,"date":"2023-07-12T22:44:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T02:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-ag-asks-zuckerberg-to-testify-on-human-traffickers-reported-use-of-facebook\/"},"modified":"2023-07-12T22:46:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T02:46:22","slug":"florida-ag-asks-zuckerberg-to-testify-on-human-traffickers-reported-use-of-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-ag-asks-zuckerberg-to-testify-on-human-traffickers-reported-use-of-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida AG requests Zuckerberg&#8217;s testimony on Facebook&#8217;s alleged facilitation of human trafficking."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflorida-ag-asks-zuckerberg-to-testify-on-human-traffickers-reported-use-of-facebook%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1971479&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Florida Attorney General Calls on Mark Zuckerberg to Testify About Facebook&#8217;s Alleged Use by Human Traffickers<\/h2>\n<p>Florida Republican Attorney General Ashley Moody wrote a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week asking the billionaire to testify about the alleged use of Facebook by human traffickers.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, dated Monday, Moody asked Zuckerberg to appear before Florida\u2019s Statewide Council on Human Trafficking in October, citing reports from law enforcement who have said that human trafficking cases frequently involved Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBefore launching new products or wasting time preparing for a cage match that will likely never happen, Zuckerberg should be working to make Meta\u2019s existing platforms safer for users and to prevent vulnerable people from being forced into illicit sex work. The findings of our statewide survey and other reports make it clear that Meta platforms are the preferred social media applications for human traffickers looking to prey on vulnerable people,\u201d said Moody, who is the chair of Florida\u2019s human trafficking council, in a press release.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Moody\u2019s letter, the council surveyed Florida law enforcement agencies to see what role various <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ga-poll-watcher-it-expert-non-trump-supporter-affidavit-sudden-surge-of-20000-mail-in-votes-for-biden-in-early-hours-on-nov\/\" title=\"GA Poll Watcher, IT Expert, Non-Trump Supporter Affidavit: Sudden Surge of 20,000 Mail-In-Votes For Biden In Early Hours On Nov\">social media companies<\/a> may have played in facilitating human trafficking. Moody said the survey found that more than 53% of the 271 human trafficking cases that involved social media were linked by law enforcement to Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Chair of the Council, and as Florida\u2019s Attorney General, I invite you to appear before the Council to discuss this very important issue and address the Council as to what Meta is doing to prevent its platforms from being used to assist, facilitate or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-official-calls-on-mark-zuckerberg-to-stop-public-safety-threat-occurring-on-facebook\/\" title=\"Top official urges Zuckerberg to halt Facebook's 'public safety threat'.\">support human trafficking<\/a>,\u201d Moody wrote in her letter.<\/p>\n<p>Moody requested that Zuckerberg respond by September 5 to her request. Her letter comes on the heels of a report from The Wall Street Journal and academic researchers that accused Instagram of facilitating a \u201cvast pedophile network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Journal, alongside researchers at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, said that Instagram allowed and promoted accounts that openly purchased and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-ag-asks-zuckerberg-to-testify-on-human-traffickers-reported-use-of-facebook\/\" title=\"Florida AG requests Zuckerberg's testimony on Facebook's alleged facilitation of human trafficking.\">commissioned \u201cunderage-sex content<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Accounts on Instagram have posted \u201cmenus\u201d that offered inappropriate content, including \u201cimagery of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ted-cruz-grills-mark-zuckerberg-over-alleged-instagram-pedophile-network\/\" title=\"Ted Cruz questions Zuckerberg on Instagram pedophile network.\">minor performing sexual acts<\/a> with animals,\u201d according to researchers from the Stanford Internet Observatory. Other \u201cmenus\u201d reportedly offered videos of children hurting themselves or \u201cmeet-ups\u201d with kids.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Facebook reported more than 21 million instances of \u201capparent child pornography\u201d while Instagram reported over 5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida&#8217;s GOP Attorney General, Ashley Moody, penned a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, urging him to testify regarding Facebook&#8217;s alleged facilitation of human trafficking. Moody requested Zuckerberg&#8217;s presence before Florida&#8217;s Statewide Council on Human Trafficking in October, citing law enforcement reports as evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1971480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1971479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1971480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}