{"id":22115,"date":"2026-02-25T13:37:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T12:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/metas-ai-sending-junk-tips-to-doj-us-child-abuse-investigators-say\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T13:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T12:37:38","slug":"metas-ai-sending-junk-tips-to-doj-us-child-abuse-investigators-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/metas-ai-sending-junk-tips-to-doj-us-child-abuse-investigators-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s AI sending \u2018junk\u2019 tips to DoJ, US child abuse investigators say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers say flood of low-quality reports is draining resources and slowing cases amid New Mexico lawsuit<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/meta\">Meta<\/a>\u2019s use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">artificial intelligence<\/a> software to moderate its social media platforms is generating large volumes of useless reports about cases of child sexual abuse, which are draining resources and hindering investigations, said officers from the US Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) taskforce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe get a lot of tips from Meta that are just kind of junk,\u201d Benjamin Zwiebel, a special agent with the ICAC taskforce in New Mexico, said last week during his testimony in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/feb\/02\/meta-trial-new-mexico-social-media\">state\u2019s trial against Meta. The state\u2019s attorney general <\/a>alleges the company\u2019s platforms are putting profits over child safety. Meta disputes these allegations, citing changes it has introduced on its platforms, such as teen accounts with default protections. The ICAC taskforce is a nationwide network of law enforcement agencies coordinated with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) to investigate and prosecute online child exploitation and abuse cases.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/feb\/25\/meta-ai-junk-child-abuse-tips-doj\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/76bc79c8cbf8f6e0b40126690f8c2a3a6c3fc815\/263_0_5835_4667\/master\/5835.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7575a807a039e07401f23600c313804e\" title=\"Meta\u2019s AI sending \u2018junk\u2019 tips to DoJ, US child abuse investigators say\" \/>Officers say flood of low-quality reports is draining resources and slowing cases amid New Mexico lawsuit<br \/>\nMeta\u2019s use of artificial intelligence software to moderate its social media platforms is generating large volumes of useless reports about cases of child sexual abuse, which are draining resources and hindering investigations, said officers from the US Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) taskforce.<br \/>\n\u201cWe get a lot of tips from Meta that are just kind of junk,\u201d Benjamin Zwiebel, a special agent with the ICAC taskforce in New Mexico, said last week during his testimony in the state\u2019s trial against Meta. The state\u2019s attorney general alleges the company\u2019s platforms are putting profits over child safety. Meta disputes these allegations, citing changes it has introduced on its platforms, such as teen accounts with default protections. The ICAC taskforce is a nationwide network of law enforcement agencies coordinated with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) to investigate and prosecute online child exploitation and abuse cases. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers say flood of low-quality reports is draining resources and slowing cases amid New Mexico lawsuit Meta\u2019s use of artificial intelligence software to moderate its social media platforms is generating large volumes of useless reports about cases of child sexual abuse, which are draining resources and hindering investigations, said officers from the US Internet Crimes &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/metas-ai-sending-junk-tips-to-doj-us-child-abuse-investigators-say\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meta\u2019s AI sending \u2018junk\u2019 tips to DoJ, US child abuse investigators say<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22116,"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\/22115"}],"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=22115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}