Florida subpoenas Zuckerberg to testify for the use of networks by human traffickers

The attorney general of Florida, Ashley Moodyannounced this Monday that he invited the executive director of Goal, mark zuckerbergto testify next October before the State Council on the Human Trafficking for the use of their platform by criminals who exploit the victims.

The objective of inviting Zuckerberg to testify is to find out what “Goal plans to do to prevent human traffickers from using their platforms to promote this horrible crimeMoody said in a statement.

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According to the result of a survey carried out with data from the sheriff’s offices of the 67 counties of the state and the police departments of the main cities of Floridamore than half of the cases of use of social networks by human traffickers reported in this state correspond to Meta, which includes Facebook, instagram, Messenger and WhatsAppamong other networks.

Furthermore, according to reports CyberTipline 2022 from the National Center for Children Missing and Exploited by Electronic Service Providers, more than 27 million (85%) of reported incidents that year were from Meta platforms, Moody said.

The next meeting of the State Council on Human Trafficking Florida is scheduled for October 2 and the attorney general requested in her letter to Zuckerberg a response by September 5 as the deadline.

“Before launching new products (Threads) or waste time preparing for a fight (…) that will probably never happen, Zuckerberg should work to make existing Meta platforms safer for users and prevent vulnerable people from being forced into sex work illicit”, stressed the attorney general in a statement.

According to Moody, Zuckerberg must “pay immediate attention to this threat to public safety and testify before our council about what Meta is doing to prevent its platforms from being used to aid, facilitate or support human trafficking”.

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In the US, according to a federal report, in 2022 there were 183 new criminal cases of human trafficking opened in the federal judicial system, which meant a 24% decrease compared to the previous year.

The platforms most commonly used by the traffickers investigated in these cases to recruit their victims were, in this order, SnapchatInstagram, kick, grindr, video gamesFacebook, discord, Yubo, Tinder, omegle, live.me and Gate of Chaos.

Source: Elcomercio

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