TECH - Meta Under Fire: Walmart and Match Group Slam Company Over Ads Next to Underage Sexual Content | Benzinga
Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META), the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, faced a significant uproar from two of its prominent corporate advertisers, Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT) and Match Group Inc (NASDAQ: MTCH), due to their ad display next to content that sexualized underage users.
In an amended lawsuit filed on Tuesday, these advertisers expressed their concerns about the inappropriate placement of their ads on Meta's platforms.
Match Group, Tinder's parent company, informed Meta about a series of Reels that appeared alongside one of its ads, describing the content as "highly disturbing."
This included six consecutive videos featuring young girls in various provocative situations, the New York Post reports.
Match Group's concerns were so elevated that its CEO, Bernard Kim, reached out directly to Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta.
Walmart also voiced its ...