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I need to know, exactly how is it Facebook or Zuckerberg's fault that these kids were talking to insidious perverted adults online? I don't see any particular way that what Facebook offers is objectively more unsafe than any other IM provider. Facebook fucking sucks, but if your kid wants to talk to the candy man online, they'll find out how. Like, this isn't a discussion on how "social media affects kids brains", it's a discussion on how evil Facebook allowed children to be sexually exploited by predators.
So again, how is this any different than the IM client that IG offers? Snapchat? Discord? Telegram? Signal? Teams? Twitter? Tumblr? Roblox? Fortnite? CSGO?
The kids don't want to speak with the "candy man" creeps will seek out children, the creep will cement themselves as a safe adult and will groom the child who likely comes from a already troubled background.
I agree with the sentiment of what you said but the framing is flawed.
The fault lays with the adult and not the child. Adults should know better, and most will not entertain communication beyond pleasantries/assistance.
Pedophilia isn't a social media issue but a cultural one, the fix isn't based around the platforms used but the predictors them selves, weather from childhood trauma or neurological disorder we need to push away the stigma and reform these cultural issues. But this isn't to say we shouldn't have safe guarding, if an account flags as younger then fb, insta, discord etc should do they're diligence in banning those accounts as well as monitoring the accounts that are actively seeking minors, parents need to be involved in the lives of they're children and must limit/monitor what the child is doing on the web.