Content warning: this story contains descriptions of disturbing AI-generated videos that depict violent child abuse.
Last month, we reported that Facebook was hosting enormous numbers of graphic AI-generated videos of physical child abuse that showed kids being beaten, burned, dragged by their hair, locked in cages, and more.
In response to our questions, Facebookâs parent company Meta alternately dragged its feet, rationalized about why the videos were acceptable, and issued hard-to-parse statements that dodged any accountability or meaningful commitment to fighting the phenomenon.
As we reported the story, Meta eventually pulled down an account we shared with it that had uploaded a particularly disturbing array of AI videos that depicted children being viciously beaten and forced to eat trash, as well as many more appalling scenarios including a young girl being locked in a freezer by a kidnapper.
