In the space where corporate systems meet the most vulnerable, Meta's advertising infrastructure has repeatedly failed to prevent AI-generated child sexual abuse material from circulating as paid content on Facebook and Instagram — including in India, where the government had already issued a direct removal order. A ten-month investigation by the Tech Transparency Project documents 332 such ads, the majority appearing in a single month, with some placed through Meta's own Chinese advertising partners. The pattern that emerges is not one of isolated failure but of a moderation architecture that
Meta's Ad System Continues Hosting Child Abuse Material Despite Government Orders
Children's images were manipulated using AI to create fake sexual abuse material and distributed as advertising content, causing direct exploitation of real minors.