"In late September, The Guardian reported that Meta used back-to-school photos of teenage girls to advertise the Threads app to fully grown men. Girls as young as 13. These photos were posted by regular moms on Facebook and Instagram, some of whom had their profiles set to private. The photos of girls in their school uniforms appeared in-feed as advertisements resembling organic "suggested" threads posts, or were outright cross-posted without consent. Their faces weren't hidden or blurred."
"This reporting sent me reeling back into my memories of high school and earlier. Memories I've never re-examined or tried to make sense of as an adult. I talked it out with my best friend, and we were both taken aback by how common, how frequent this harassment was visited upon us and our peers. I polled another friend, who grew up in a completely separate part of the country."
Meta used back-to-school photos of teenage girls to advertise the Threads app to adult men, including girls as young as 13. The images were posted by mothers on Facebook and Instagram, sometimes from accounts set to private. Photos of girls in school uniforms appeared in-feed as ads resembling organic "suggested" posts or were cross-posted without consent. Faces were unblurred, and some ads displayed the child's real name. One mother with fewer than 300 followers had a cross-posted photo of her 15-year-old garner almost 7,000 views, 90% from nonfollowers and 90% from men, half in their forties. The reporting triggered memories of frequent harassment during school years. A Meta spokesperson said the images did not violate policy.
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