Frances Haugen, Facebook Whistleblower, Speaking Remotely at #CESESummit

We are so excited that Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen will be joining us remotely to speak at the 2024 Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation (CESE) Global Summit! 

Frances Haugen filed a series of complaints with the US Federal Government relating to Facebook (now named ‘Meta’), disclosing the company's internal documents and demonstrating how Facebook has been misleading the public on the harmful impact its products have on children. 

Frances' courageous actions catalyzed a series of hearing in which Congress grilled Facebook's executives, as well as a Wall Street Journal investigative series. 

Register for the CESE Summit now for the chance to learn from Frances Haugen and numerous other top-tier speakers!

Learn more about the 2024 CESE Summit here.

"Metaphiles": How Instagram's Algorithms Endanger Young Girls 

The New York Times wrote an investigative piece exposing the dark underbelly of advertising on Instagram. What they discovered is that advertisements and promoted posts depicting children, specifically young girls, draw unsolicited, sexually charged comments and direct messages from an audience of adult men.

"Operation Metaphile," as coined by New Mexico's District Attorney, Raúl Torrez, is a sting operation conducted on Instagram to catch men seeking to sexually abuse underage girls. What they found was that "Meta algorithms played a key role in directing men to these 'decoy' [minor] accounts created by law enforcement."

The Times created two Instagram accounts and promoted posts showing a 5-year-old girl wearing a tank top and a sparkly charm. The results were disturbing. Although Meta's Audience Insights estimated an audience of 32% men, the actual audience was 64% men for one account and 95% for the other.

The accounts received messages from 4 convicted sex offenders and 5 other men, who have arrest records involving crimes against children.

📣ACTION: Call for Online Child Protection Legislation!

 Belgium Protects Pimps/Traffickers at the Expense of Prostituted Women

An appalling new law in Belgium provides legal cover for pimps and traffickers to continue to abuse prostituted women. The law provides a “labour contract” to prostituted persons that includes a provision to “enable their pimps to punish them with a government mediator if they refuse sex more than 10 times in a six-month period.”

Rachel Moran, Director of International Policy and Advocacy, National Center on Sexual Exploitation, “The clause that a prostituted woman in Belgium will face government intervention should she exercise her bodily autonomy too often gives the lie to the idea that she has any real bodily autonomy at all. This is the latest in a sorry string of examples that span the globe, proving time and again that regulation of the prostitution system protects only those who sell women and the men who buy them.”  

New Documentary on Accused Sex Trafficker, Andrew Tate

Accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate was the most googled man in 2022. He is known as a “Male Supremacy Influencer” and a vast majority of his followers are impressionable, young men. This new documentary from ABC explores his influence and the allegations against him.

“I like living in a country where corruption is accessible to everybody,” Tate said, when asked about why he moved to Romania. This is where he started his webcam business. Now Andrew Tate faces a criminal prosecution for human trafficking in Romania and a new criminal investigation for sexual abuse in the U.K.

Tate allegedly used the “lover-boy method,” which is a form of psychological manipulation and purposeful misleading, to sex traffick women. His victims were tattooed with his name in obvious places to assert his ownership of these women.

NCOSE represents survivors of Andrew Tate.

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