Meta rejects claims it 'deliberately targeted' Instagram ads featuring child sexual abuse material in India after govt notice

After receiving a government notice, Meta has rejected allegations that it "deliberately targeted" Instagram users with ads featuring child sexual abuse material in India.

"It is categorically inaccurate to suggest that we’d knowingly and deliberately target ads featuring children to people based on an inappropriate interest in children. Quite the opposite; we use technology to identify accounts that have shown potentially suspicious activity related to children, and we automatically removed over 4 million of these accounts last year," said Meta in a blog post.
"We’re aware of recent news reports about Instagram ads in India that violated our policies against child exploitation. And we want to be clear: we take these concerns seriously, we never want this content on our platforms, and we’re committed to improving our efforts to combat it," the tech giant said.