Meta The advertisements paid for channels have been removed Wire The messaging app that promoted escort and sex work services in the US and other countries with its Instagram platform.
CBS News found several paid advertisements on the Meta’s Instagram Stories feature, which promoted opportunities to meet women with the URL link, leading to the telegram platform. Many such advertisements were called the Royal Garden Club with more than 100,000 followers by an Instagram account who marketed themselves as “Premium Dating Agency for Rich Men” with both a website and a link to Telegram Channel.
Meta spokesman Erin Logan told CBS News that the company had removed the accounts associated with advertisements and disabled advertising accounts to violate the Meta content moderation policies.
Meta also confirmed CBS News that it had banned the administrators of advertising accounts from advertising on the company’s social media platforms.
Logan pointed to the company’s human exploitation policy, which involves “removal of material, where a third-party actor recruitment, convenience or benefit from commercial sexual activity,” as well as the company’s adult sexual compassion policy, which, among other things, removes the material, offer or offers, which offers, which provides methods of contact for prostitution. “
Telegram channel of the Royal Garden Club clearly offered potential customers’ access to more than 7,000 girls worldwide for fun dates, relationships and hot sex. It included “VIP Lifetime” of $ 8,000 of “top models, bloggers, actresses, athletes, magazine cover girls, adult stars”.
The Royal Garden Club claimed its telegram that it is a “full-service escort agency working legally,” indicates the fact that the business, R Gardens LLP, is registered in the LLP, United Kingdom. In a CBS news review of public trade records in the UK, the company R Garden LLP was found registered at a address in London.
Arriving at Telegram, an anonymous modure for the Royal Garden Club channel refused to comment when asked how it was capable of promoting advertisements on Instagram, and what kind of service the company provides.
Another paid Instagram advertisement was promoted by an account called Men.S_dreams, which is a shell account with very few materials and very few followers. The advertisement promoted “beautiful girls’ meeting” and included a link to a Telegram Channel. The telegram channel in question, called “Meeting with Girls”, had messages in both Russian and English “girls ready to fly with you anywhere in the world.”
The channel posted profile paintings of hundreds of women and noted their nationalities. CBS News could not independently verify the identity of women, nor verified whether they had agreed to their images being shared by the channel. The anonymous moderators of the account repeatedly posted messages on public channels, asking potential customers to send personal messages, if they wanted to know anything about girls, sex or anything. ”
CBS News has also commented from this account how it was able to pay for advertisements on Instagram.
While the meta has strict content moderation policies, the telegram is known for his hands away. The content of the platform mentioned on its website is not involved from banning the ban on “illegal pornographic materials on publicly viewable telegram channels” in the moderation policies, or “attached to activities that are illegal as illegal in most countries.” CBS News has commented to Telegram whether the channels in question violate the policies of the platform or will cause Telegram to review their policies.
In recent months, Meta has struggled to combat an increase in sexually paid advertisements displayed to some users, despite violating the conditions of the use of such advertisements. A CBS news investigation last month Hundreds of advertisements exposed AI tools are used to create sexually explicit deep images of real people – on their platforms promoting “Nudifai” apps.
Many of these advertisements targeted male users between 18 and 65 years of age in the United States and the European Union.
Later in June, Meta Sue One of the most prominent Nudify app manufacturers, fileing a case against Joy Timeline HK Limited in Hong Kong, the unit behind the app “Krashai”, to prevent it from advertising the app on meta platforms.
