The New Mexico attorney general, Raúl Torrez, who has launched legal action against Meta for child trafficking on its platforms, says he believes the social media company is the “largest marketplace for predators and paedophiles globally”.
While Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other social media executives are being questioned on Wednesday in a congressional hearing about their role in online child sexual exploitation, Torrez tells the Guardian he believes that what his own investigation has already uncovered is “just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to how widespread and well known this problem was inside the company”.
