Joe Concha slams Facebook for turning blind eye to cartels, trafficking: 'As shocking as it is nauseating' - Fox News

Fox News contributor Joe Concha blasted Facebook on Friday for "knowingly" looking the other way and ignoring warnings that drug cartels and human traffickers used the platform.

"This is life and death kind of stuff here," Concha said.

The Wall Street Journal published a report on Thursday, "Facebook Employees Flag Drug Cartels and Human Traffickers. The Company’s Response Is Weak, Documents Show," which detailed how the social media juggernaut allowed dozens of problematic pages to remain active. The bombshell came after other WSJ reports this week that indicated Facebook allows elite users to bend the content rules and is aware its photo-sharing app Instagram is harmful to young women.

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"How Facebook can knowingly turn a blind eye to Mexican drug cartels using its platform to recruit, train and pay hitmen or recruit women into abusive employment situations in the Middle East, it’s as shocking as it is nauseating," Concha said on "The Faulkner Focus."

Concha called for whoever ignored these warnings internally to be fired and for the government to take immediate action.

"Mark Zuckerberg should be summoned to Capitol Hill next week, not next month, next week to answer for this," Concha said. "He should explain how he’s allowing deadly drug cartels, for example, on its platform while banning the 45th president who the company deems is a bigger threat than the...



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