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A top European Union official plans to confront Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in an in-person meeting over reports this week that the company has failed to prevent the spread of child sexual abuse material on its platform

. Thierry Breton, a European commissioner who has led the charge on regulating digital platforms, will visit Meta’s California headquarters on June 23 and plans to raise the matter with Zuckerberg personally, he tweeted Thursday. “#Meta’s voluntary code on child protection seems not to work,” Breton said. “Mark Zuckerberg must now explain & take immediate action.

According to the investigation, whose results were published this week, Instagram’s technology has helped connect creators, sellers and buyers of underage pornography via its algorithms, search functions and hashtags. In response to the findings, a Meta spokesperson told CNN the company has set up an internal task force to investigate the claims, which has already resulted in the fixing of an unexpected technical issue that kept “certain user reports from reaching content reviewers.

 

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