{"id":31383,"date":"2026-07-06T03:23:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T21:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/stop-child-sex-abuse-ads-on-insta-at-once-govt-to-meta-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T03:23:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T21:53:49","slug":"stop-child-sex-abuse-ads-on-insta-at-once-govt-to-meta-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/stop-child-sex-abuse-ads-on-insta-at-once-govt-to-meta-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop child sex abuse ads on Insta at once: Govt to Meta | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-132203098,imgsize-327402,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/-.jpg\" alt=\"Stop child sex abuse ads on Insta at once: Govt to Meta\" title=\"Representative image (AP)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Representative image (AP)\">Representative image (AP)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Govt Saturday evening issued a stern notice to Meta, directing it to immediately disable all paid advertisements and content on <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/instagram\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Instagram<\/a> that promote or facilitate access to child sexual exploitative and abuse material (CSEAM), sources said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) has given Meta seven days to submit a detailed explanation on how such advertisements were allowed to appear on Instagram, what checks were carried out before they went live, and what corrective action has been taken.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>The advertisements, govt sources said, were allegedly being used to direct users to external platforms hosting unlawful child sexual abuse material. <!-- -->The ministry has asked Instagram to disable all such ads and related content without delay, and put in place safeguards to prevent recurrence.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h2>\u2018Zero tolerance\u2019 for child abuse material, says Meta<br \/><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>Govt is treating the matter with utmost seriousness, particularly the alleged \u201calgorithmic amplification\u201d of sexually exploitative content through a large social media platform. Officials said paid promotions are expected to undergo stricter screening than ordinary user posts and the company will have to explain how its review systems failed to detect such content.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>A Meta spokesperson said the company has \u201czero tolerance\u201d for soliciting or sharing CSEAM, including in ads.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>\u201cWe use advanced AI technology to proactively detect violating content and individuals, but we are in a constant battle with criminals who hide among our 3.5 billion users and try to evade our detection. That is why our expert teams are working to improve our defenses, develop new technology to root out predators, block links to violating websites, and share intelligence with other companies so they can take action too,\u201d the spokesperson said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/>The notice followed reports Instagram ads were being used in India to promote child sexual abuse material.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/stop-child-sex-abuse-ads-on-insta-at-once-govt-to-meta\/articleshow\/132203100.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representative image (AP) NEW DELHI: Govt Saturday evening issued a stern notice to Meta, directing it to immediately disable all paid advertisements and content on Instagram that promote or facilitate access to child sexual exploitative and abuse material (CSEAM), sources said.Ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) has given Meta seven days to submit a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-country"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}