{"id":60386,"date":"2026-09-09T02:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/meta-continues-to-run-ads-promoting-child-sexual-abuse-material-in-india-report\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T02:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:37:14","slug":"meta-continues-to-run-ads-promoting-child-sexual-abuse-material-in-india-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/meta-continues-to-run-ads-promoting-child-sexual-abuse-material-in-india-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta continues to run ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India: report"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Warning: This story contains descriptions of abuse<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

Meta ran hundreds of paid ads with artificial intelligence-generated child sexual abuse imagery, including several in India, over the past 10 months, a new report by US-based campaigners has found.<\/p>\n

The report comes two months after the Indian government ordered<\/a> Meta to remove all ads and content promoting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on Instagram. This was in the aftermath of a BBC Eye investigation<\/a> which found that Instagram was running paid adverts promoting CSAM in India.<\/p>\n

Washington-based Tech Transparency Project (TTP), external<\/span><\/a> says it found 332 adverts with CSAM that ran on Facebook and Instagram, the majority of them (274) in August this year.<\/p>\n

When the BBC wrote to Meta about these findings, they said in a statement, “We don’t tolerate nudify apps or any kind of child exploitation, whether real or AI-generated. These criminals constantly shift tactics to evade detection, which is why we keep strengthening our detection and enforcement.”<\/p>\n

The TTP report, published on Tuesday, says that it identified several photos of real children, including a member of a European royal family, that were used in the ads and then manipulated using AI. It says more than a dozen ads appeared on Meta platforms even after TTP made the company aware of its findings.<\/p>\n

About a quarter (84) of the ads ran in India and 78 of these were published after the Indian government’s order on removing CSAM and its meeting with senior Meta officials.<\/p>\n

After the BBC investigation, several Indian agencies including the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights and the National Human Rights Commission have said they are examining the matter.<\/p>\n

The distribution of CSAM is a criminal offence in India, while Meta’s policy states that ads must not contain content that sexually exploits or endangers children.<\/p>\n

When the BBC contacted Meta about its investigation, it said that when it becomes aware of apparent child exploitation, it reports it to the US-based National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in compliance with its legal obligations.<\/p>\n

The NCMEC is the centralised global reporting system for the online sexual exploitation of children.<\/p>\n

But Bhuwan Ribhu, the founder of Just Rights for Children, a network of more than 250 organisations working to prevent violence against children in India, says this is not enough.<\/p>\n

Just Rights for Children has filed a petition in India’s Supreme Court, citing the BBC’s findings, and asked for directions to social media platforms for mandatory reporting and identification of those promoting child sexual abuse material<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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