> #Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man

> The man noticed that posts encouraging him to “get Threads” (…) were being dropped into his Instagram feed featuring embedded posts of uniformed girls as young as 13 with their faces visible and, in most cases, their names.

> The children’s images were used by Meta after their parents had posted them on Instagram to mark their return to school.

theguardian.com/technology/202…

Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man

Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says

^{Robert Booth (The Guardian)}