Meta Ran Hundreds of Paid Ads with Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1390196/meta-ran-hundreds-of-paid-ads-with-child-sexual-abuse-imagery

• Meta has run more than 300 paid ads containing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) this year, a TTP investigation found.
• Most of the ads showed a photo of a child, which is digitally altered with AI to make it appear the child is performing a sex act.
• TTP identified multiple photos of real children, including a member of a European royal family, that were used in the ads.
• Several of the CSAM ads were placed by Meta’s own advertising partners in China, including a Chinese state-controlled company.
• The vast majority of the ads pointed to AI apps from China. Many of these apps were capable of “nudifying” people.