the organisation sparked outrage after using images of underage schoolgirls mostly teens in advertisements for its Threads platform that were targeted specifically at a 37-year-old man, with parents condemning the practice as disgusting and exploitative.
Whilst this is not illegal as such it does set the tone for the way META thinks about its business model and seems prepared to use any tactic to further increase its user base. This linked with other stories in the press such as one of the stories in this blog entitled "Meta’s flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York" demonstrate a corporate mindset that does not see how innapropriate such strategies are in a world that is growingly concerned about keeping children safe online.
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