Overview

• Reuters reporting cited by the coverage describes an internal Meta document that allowed chatbots to make sensual or flirtatious remarks to children, including praising a child's "youthful form."
• Meta confirmed the examples have been removed and said its policies prohibit content that sexualizes children or enables sexualized role play between adults and minors.
• The leaked “GenAI: Content Risk Standards” were reported to have been approved across legal, policy, and engineering teams inside Meta.
• Senator Josh Hawley and a bipartisan group of lawmakers called for Meta to release internal records and explain how the permissive examples were approved.
• Related opinion coverage highlights parental safety steps and points to lawsuits against other chatbot providers, including Character.AI, as evidence of broader industry risks to teens.