{"id":21739,"date":"2026-01-28T08:37:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/meta-allowed-minors-access-to-sex-talking-chatbots-despite-staff-concerns-lawsuit-alleges\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T08:37:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:37:57","slug":"meta-allowed-minors-access-to-sex-talking-chatbots-despite-staff-concerns-lawsuit-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/meta-allowed-minors-access-to-sex-talking-chatbots-despite-staff-concerns-lawsuit-alleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta allowed minors access to sex-talking chatbots despite staff concerns, lawsuit alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filing by New Mexico\u2019s attorney general includes Meta staff emails objecting to AI companion policy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/mark-zuckerberg\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>, Meta\u2019s chief executive, approved allowing minors to access <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">artificial intelligence<\/a> chatbot companions that safety staffers warned were capable of sexual interactions, according to internal Meta documents filed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/newmexico\">New Mexico<\/a> state court case and made public on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit \u2013 brought by the state\u2019s attorney general, Raul Torrez, and scheduled for trial next month \u2013 alleges Meta \u201cfailed to stem the tide of damaging sexual material and sexual propositions delivered to children\u201d on Facebook and Instagram.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/27\/meta-lawsuit-minors-chatbots\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f6236f51e29389309cca0c8934bf7c5624b78619\/289_0_4008_3208\/master\/4008.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0804d8a00462b716e5f5f38d986fec92\" title=\"Meta allowed minors access to sex-talking chatbots despite staff concerns, lawsuit alleges\" \/>Filing by New Mexico\u2019s attorney general includes Meta staff emails objecting to AI companion policy<br \/>\nMark Zuckerberg, Meta\u2019s chief executive, approved allowing minors to access artificial intelligence chatbot companions that safety staffers warned were capable of sexual interactions, according to internal Meta documents filed in a New Mexico state court case and made public on Monday.<br \/>\nThe lawsuit \u2013 brought by the state\u2019s attorney general, Raul Torrez, and scheduled for trial next month \u2013 alleges Meta \u201cfailed to stem the tide of damaging sexual material and sexual propositions delivered to children\u201d on Facebook and Instagram. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filing by New Mexico\u2019s attorney general includes Meta staff emails objecting to AI companion policy Mark Zuckerberg, Meta\u2019s chief executive, approved allowing minors to access artificial intelligence chatbot companions that safety staffers warned were capable of sexual interactions, according to internal Meta documents filed in a New Mexico state court case and made public on &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/meta-allowed-minors-access-to-sex-talking-chatbots-despite-staff-concerns-lawsuit-alleges\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meta allowed minors access to sex-talking chatbots despite staff concerns, lawsuit alleges<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21739"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}