{"id":83227,"date":"2026-09-09T04:10:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T04:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/meta-continues-to-run-ads-promoting-child-sexual-abuse-material-in-india-report\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T04:10:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T04:10:51","slug":"meta-continues-to-run-ads-promoting-child-sexual-abuse-material-in-india-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/meta-continues-to-run-ads-promoting-child-sexual-abuse-material-in-india-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta continues to run ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Warning: This story contains descriptions of abuse<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meta ran hundreds of paid ads with artificial intelligence-generated child sexual abuse imagery, including several in India, over the past 10 months, a new report by US-based campaigners has found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report comes two months after the Indian government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cql11969g2qo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">ordered<\/a> Meta to remove all ads and content promoting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on Instagram. This was in the aftermath of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cvgm4e0316zo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">BBC Eye investigation<\/a> which found that Instagram was running paid adverts promoting CSAM in India.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Washington-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtransparencyproject.org\/about-us\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Tech Transparency Project (TTP)<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> says it found 332 adverts with CSAM that ran on Facebook and Instagram, the majority of them (274) in August this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When the BBC wrote to Meta about these findings, they said in a statement, &#8220;We don&#8217;t tolerate nudify apps or any kind of child exploitation, whether real or AI-generated. These criminals constantly shift tactics to evade detection, which is why we keep strengthening our detection and enforcement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The TTP report, published on Tuesday, says that it identified several photos of real children, including a member of a European royal family, that were used in the ads and then manipulated using AI. It says more than a dozen ads appeared on Meta platforms even after TTP made the company aware of its findings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About a quarter (84) of the ads ran in India and 78 of these were published after the Indian government&#8217;s order on removing CSAM and its meeting with senior Meta officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After the BBC investigation, several Indian agencies including the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights and the National Human Rights Commission have said they are examining the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The distribution of CSAM is a criminal offence in India, while Meta&#8217;s policy states that ads must not contain content that sexually exploits or endangers children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When the BBC contacted Meta about its investigation, it said that when it becomes aware of apparent child exploitation, it reports it to the US-based National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in compliance with its legal obligations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The NCMEC is the centralised global reporting system for the online sexual exploitation of children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Bhuwan Ribhu, the founder of Just Rights for Children, a network of more than 250 organisations working to prevent violence against children in India, says this is not enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Just Rights for Children has filed a petition in India&#8217;s Supreme Court, citing the BBC&#8217;s findings, and asked for directions to social media platforms for mandatory reporting and identification of those promoting child sexual abuse material<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cqxv2vwjjq3o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: This story contains descriptions of abuse Meta ran hundreds of paid ads with artificial intelligence-generated child sexual abuse imagery, including several in India, over the past 10 months, a new report by US-based campaigners has found. The report comes two months after the Indian government ordered Meta to remove all ads and content promoting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62],"tags":[1623,2139,813,4002,349,842,2357,1875,985,114,693],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83229,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83227\/revisions\/83229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}