Endangered species are being trafficked through Facebook Marketplace at an alarming rate, despite Meta’s long-standing pledge to end such activity. Avaaz, a global campaign group, didn’t even have to look very hard to find these animals for sale. All it took was “a matter of clicks,” The Guardian reports.
Facebook’s Marketplace feature is, at this point, one of the social network’s most-used features, mostly because its audience is so enormous. But it’s also successful in selling some things that shouldn’t be listed there in the first place. And Facebook seems entirely incapable of weeding out the bad from the good.
