Meta safety staff found subscription tool enabled child exploitation, WSJ says

Meta Platforms safety staff warned the company last year that its paid subscription tools on Facebook and Instagram were being misused by adults seeking profit from exploiting their own children, Jeff Horwitz and Katherine Blunt of The Wall Street Journal report. Two teams had raised alarms in internal reports after finding hundreds of “parent-managed minor accounts” that were using the subscription feature to sell exclusive content. The content often featured young girls in bikinis and leotards, and was sold to an audience that was overwhelmingly male and often overt about sexual interest in children, people familiar with the investigations said.