Social Media Grooming, Exploiting
and Trafficking Children
The Anti-Human Trafficking Newsletter for February further explores the use of social media to groom, exploit, and traffic children and focuses on the role of legislation and social media platforms.
Awareness In October 2023, attorneys general from 41 states and the District of Columbia filed lawsuits alleging Meta, owner of Facebook and Instagram, built addictive product features geared toward children despite knowing their negative impact on mental health. The filing calls out the platforms’ recommendation algorithms, use of social comparison, and collecting of young users’ data without consent.
Advocacy The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) was enacted in April 2000 out of concern for the online collection of personal information from children under 13. This law applies only if the website or service is based in the United States.
COPPA requires parental permission before a marketer can collect personal information from a child. This provision encourages parents to actively participate in their children’s online lives. COPPA applies only to children younger than 13 years old, leaving teenagers without privacy protections in an essentially unregulated, commercial, digital media environment.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is responsible for enforcing COPPA.
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For more information regarding use of social media
to groom, exploit, and traffic children
Read the February Anti-Human Trafficking Newsletter
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