Florida AG Demands Zuckerberg Answer for Lack of Action to Stop Human Trafficking
“Before launching new products or wasting time preparing for a cage match that will likely never happen, Zuckerberg should be working to make Meta’s existing platforms safer for users and to prevent vulnerable people from being forced into illicit sex work,”
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody demands Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg start getting serious about human trafficking.
I’m calling on @Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify at our next Statewide Council On #HumanTrafficking meeting regarding the use of the company’s platforms in human trafficking cases. pic.twitter.com/rKUe6bc3r1
— AG Ashley Moody (@AGAshleyMoody) July 11, 2023
Moody sent a letter to Zuckerberg Monday, inviting the CEO to speak with Florida’s Statewide Council on Human Trafficking on what preventative measures, if any, the tech giant is taking to end human trafficking on sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp.
“Before launching new products or wasting time preparing for a cage match that will likely never happen, Zuckerberg should be working to make Meta’s existing platforms safer for users and to prevent vulnerable people from being forced into illicit sex work,” Moody wrote in a press release.
“Zuckerberg needs to immediately turn his attention to this public safety threat and testify to our council about what Meta is doing to prevent its platforms from being used to assist, facilitate or support human trafficking,” the attorney general said in an effort to combat sex trafficking operations taking place on popular social media platforms.
So, Zuckerberg is No. 1 in pedophile friendly media?
Florida AG calls on Mark Zuckerberg to stop child traffickers exploiting kids online: 'Public safety threat’https://t.co/vemOTvglFc
— davd soul (@davdsoul) July 12, 2023
Facebook is getting the Backpage treatment https://t.co/v4HvKGFPb6
— Elizabeth Nolan Brown (@ENBrown) July 12, 2023
Florida @AGAshleyMoody calls on Mark Zuckerberg to stop child traffickers exploiting kids online: 'Public safety threat’ https://t.co/YmDgDqeLaj
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 11, 2023
ICYMI: @WFLA: Florida Attorney General invites Mark Zuckerberg to testify regarding use of Meta platforms in Florida human trafficking caseshttps://t.co/mHY8FOR9hm
— AG Ashley Moody (@AGAshleyMoody) July 11, 2023
By the way, have you seen Sound of Freedom?
"The media targeting of Sound of Freedom has only buoyed national exposure to the film, which continues to perform strongly at the box office and could serve as a lesson to both Hollywood and the media."
From @redsteeze https://t.co/eD5xpS45J9
— The Spectator World (@TheSpectator) July 11, 2023
Go see Sound of Freedom.
"This is a true story. These are real kids. It's going to be very awkward when the media comes after the kids next and accuses them of being part of a conspiracy when in fact they were rescued from a life of rape."pic.twitter.com/l6Hs33Aqug
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) July 12, 2023
This is a fight that Attorney General Moody has been fighting for a long time.
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His answer will be in so form. I’m a good liberal how dare you question me or my motives?
It’s not his responsibility. Companies are not great police forces, aka cancel culture.
“Maintining a public nuisance” has always been against the law.
It would be more acceptable if Zuck would deploy the same zeal in his platforms algorithms v trafficking as he does for non woke viewpoints.
Getting in front of it voluntarily v having a regulator impose it would probably be to Meta benefit. Sooner or later the regulatory framework that has worked to protect big tech will shift. when it does, perhaps sooner than we think, the change will be very messy for corporations who who by their own failures refused to assist in protecting children and the vulnerable.
Zuck is not law enforcement, why is it up to him to stop human trafficking, and while you’re at it, get Joe to testify as he is doing more to enable human trafficking than any social media dude
I guess he’s only Free Speech enforcement.
I sounds to me like Musk is superior to Zuck.
It’s understood that Meta is being used by human/child traffickers to facilitate their illicit activities. The Florida AG’s implication is that Meta is OK with that, so they allow it.
Since Meta is demonstrably able to leverage their algorithms to silence and censor “unpopular” (read: conservative and/or libertarian) opinions, it logically follows that Meta has the ability to leverage those algorithms to: a. make it much harder for traffickers to communicate with each other; and b. notify law enforcement of traffickers’ activity.
But they don’t. They still use their algorithms to target political conservatives and libertarians, but they do nothing to even slow down human/child trafficking.
Florida’s AG is calling on Zuck to answer why. Why is it OK to censor certain opinions, but not to try to detect and stop human/child trafficking?
Even understanding that enforcing the law isn’t Meta’s job, it’s still a fair question.
Because the entity Zuck owns and operates is a major enabler of human trafficking.
He can’t claim ignorance of that so if he does little or nothing to halt that use he’s arguably a co-conspirator in their crimes. A solid argument could be made that Meta is a Corrupt Organization, as in RICO.
Some of the activities specifically named in 18 USC 1961:
– Slavery
– Kidnapping
– Bringing in, aiding or assisting aliens in illegally entering the country (if the action was for financial gain)
Yeah, this DoJ wouldn’t touch it, but that too shall pass.
I think a lawyer “Calling On” someone to testify rates below the congressional “Sternly Worded Letter” and above the generic “Letter Never Sent.”
I’m empaneling a group of coffee shop layabouts to deliberate on this nonevent. Expect a ruling (en banc) no earlier than 1 December 2024.
Headline says “demanding”, story says “calling on” and Fox is reporting “inviting”. Zuck’s reply should rightly be “sorry, washing my hair for a meeting. I’ve got a business to run”
It’s nice Florida’s AG is grandstanding like this. Zuck is not responsible for doing law enforcement work. If the AG is serious about the issue instead of getting on TV she should be demanding Brandon&Co appear for letting human trafficking go on across our open southern border
Another option, not that I am exactly in favor but offer for arguments sake, would be to indict him as a co conspirator where they can demonstrate that Meta was used as to facilitate the crime. Find a friendly judge and ram it through. Get access through discovery to internal communications which will probably acknowledge the problem but also deem it either too expensive or burdensome to work to eliminate. Let a jury, 12 Citizens good and true, decide the issue.
This strategy seems to work for the leftists who run blue enclaves so … maybe we should at least consider similar tactics if other more reasonable means are unsuccessful in working to gain sufficient assistance to meaningfully protect children from trafficking on these platforms.
Congratulations to Florida Attorney General Moody on their near perfect record in securing convictions against child traffickers and pedophiles. Now that there is empirical data showing that Facebook/Meta is a massive tool being used by traffickers/abusers it is important to give Zuckerberg & Company only a quick minute for them to move decisively to to deploy resources to shut down the criminals. If Zuckerberg does not act decisively (by July 25th or earlier) then consider him and his colleagues to be criminals who aid and abet child trafficking and rape, and indict them. .
It is good that Florida Attorney General Moody has a near perfect record in securing convictions against child traffickers and pedophiles. Now that there is empirical data showing that Facebook/Meta is a massive tool being used by traffickers/abusers it is important to give Zuckerberg & Company only a quick minute for them to move decisively to to deploy resources to shut down the criminals. If Zuckerberg does not act decisively (by July 25th or earlier) then consider him and his colleagues to be criminals who aid and abet child trafficking and rape, and indict them. .