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Meta documents show 100,000 children sexually harassed daily on its platforms
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2024
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I wonder how they got that 100,000 number. Does Meta see the messages sent over their platforms?
They store them in a database. Yes, they absolutely see them.
Wait so they see them and proceed to do nothing about it? What's the point of being able to see the messages then?
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