Watchdog group that researches and reports on tech companies' practices, including investigations into harmful or deceptive ads on platforms like Meta.
Ads promising deepfake porn of women resembling US politicians cleared Meta's automated ad review, and the app itself sat in Apple's App Store. Both removals followed a WIRED inquiry.
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The Tech Transparency Project counted 332 AI-generated child sexual abuse ads across five markets in ten months, and 78 of the 84 it found in India ran after New Delhi ordered Meta to clear such ads off Instagram.
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David Chiu's four-page letter asks Meta how the ads got past moderation, how it handles repeat advertisers and what it sent to NCMEC. That turns a takedown story into a question about what Meta owed once it knew.
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The Tech Transparency Project counted more than 350 of these ads since late last year, some of them identical to creatives Meta had already removed, which prices the cost of beating Meta's new detection tools at roughly a re-upload.
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The Tech Transparency Project logged 332 ads with AI-generated child abuse imagery on Facebook and Instagram over ten months. Of the ones it could actually flag, Meta's review cleared the large majority.
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The Tech Transparency Project counted the ads on Facebook and Instagram this year, several of them placed by Meta's own top-tier ad partners in China, and Meta pulled about 150 within hours of seeing the list.
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The Tech Transparency Project says some of those ads were identical to ones Meta had already deleted, which makes this a repeat-upload failure in the review queue rather than a hard problem in spotting novel material.
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On August 26 Meta settled a US trial by agreeing to switch several teen safety limits on by default. Rest of World reports it is simultaneously paying parent influencers to praise those same controls where legislators are drafting bans.
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A Tech Transparency Project report says Meta ran branded influencer events in more than a dozen countries to argue bans do not work. Meta says the partnerships are disclosed and lawful.
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A Tech Transparency Project report says Meta recruited creators whenever governments took up youth social-media rules. Anyone buying influencer marketing now carries political disclosure risk.
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