In a country where over 600 million people are online and children are among the most vulnerable, Meta has agreed to report child safety cases directly to Indian law enforcement — a concession extracted not by goodwill, but by sustained governmental pressure and public accountability. The agreement follows formal inquiries by India's child rights commission into allegations that advertisements on Meta's platforms were linked to child sexual exploitation material, a revelation amplified by investigative journalism. It is a procedural first step in a longer reckoning: one that asks whether the a
Meta agrees to report child safety cases to Indian law enforcement
Children exposed to sexual exploitation and abuse material on Meta platforms.