US Investigating Meta for Role in Illicit Drug Sales: Report

U.S. prosecutors in Virginia are probing whether or not Facebook-parent Meta’s social media platforms facilitated and profited from the unlawful sale of medicine, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing paperwork and folks accustomed to the matter.

The prosecutors despatched subpoenas final yr and have been asking questions as a part of a prison grand jury probe, the report stated, including that they’ve additionally been requesting data associated to drug content material or illicit sale of medicine through Meta’s platforms.

The Food and Drug Administration has additionally been serving to with the investigation, the newspaper added. It famous that investigations don’t at all times result in costs of wrongdoing.

The paper quoted a spokesman for Meta as saying in an announcement: “The sale of illicit drugs is against our policies and we work to find and remove this content from our services”.

“Meta proactively cooperates with law enforcement authorities to help combat the sale and distribution of illicit drugs,” he added.

The prosecutors’ workplace and a spokeswoman for the FDA declined to remark to WSJ.

Meta, the FDA and the Virginia Attorney General’s workplace didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters’ request for remark.

Meta’s president of world affairs, Nick Clegg, stated on social media platform X on Friday that Meta had joined up with the U.S. State Department, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and Snapchat to assist disrupt the sale of artificial medicine on-line and educate customers concerning the related dangers.

(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – Reuters)