Facebook, Instagram promote minors’ accounts to child predators, New Mexico alleges in lawsuit

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez (D) is suing Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg over allegations the company’s platforms — Facebook and Instagram — promoted underage accounts to purported child predators. The state attorney general’s office says its undercover investigation found Meta allowed its platforms to “become a marketplace for predators in search of children upon whom they prey.” The investigation involved creating decoy accounts pretending to be children 14 years and younger. The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in New Mexico state court, alleges Meta’s algorithms showed underage users “egregious,...