At the end of last week, U.S. Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., wrote Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg “over Meta’s recent decision to allow ‘content soliciting smuggling services and sharing information related to illegal border crossing[s].'”
Cammack pointed to “a recently obtained internal Meta memo” in which “the company confirmed it has an explicit policy that allows content soliciting smuggling services, despite the ongoing humanitarian crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.”
“As you well know, the ongoing situation at the southwest border is a humanitarian crisis. Cartels exploit individuals seeking to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. Due to the record volume of illegal crossings, Border Patrol agents are required to take care of children and process migrants, while their primary role of securing the border is secondary. As a result, more humans, drugs, and weapons are trafficked through our southwest border and Americans are left to pay the price,” Cammack wrote Zuckerberg.
Cammack wrote Meta on the matter back in May, citing “thousands of advertisements and paid content on Facebook, later assured by company executives that actions were actively being taken to track and remove this illegal content.”However, her office insisted “Meta has done nothing to moderate content with illegal activities, instead reaffirming its human smuggling policy and allowing trafficking-related content to be posted” since that letter.
On Friday, the congresswoman weighed in on the letters she sent Meta.
“I’m disappointed to see that Meta has done nothing to moderate this illegal content on its platforms,” said Cammack. “I met with multiple representatives from the company last year who took great care to tell me about the steps they were taking, only to find out that their policy has not changed.”
