U.S. investigating Meta for role in illicit drug sales, WSJ reports

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U.S. investigating Meta for role in illicit ***** sales, WSJ reports

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U.S. prosecutors in Virginia are probing whether

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-parent Meta’s social media platforms facilitated and profited from the ******** ***** of drugs, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing documents and people familiar with the matter.

The prosecutors sent subpoenas last year and have been asking questions as part of a ********* grand jury probe, the report said, adding that they have also been requesting records related to ***** content or illicit ***** of drugs via Meta’s platforms.

The Food and ***** Administration has also been helping with the investigation, the newspaper added. It noted that investigations do not always lead to charges of wrongdoing.

The paper quoted a spokesman for Meta as saying in a statement: “The ***** 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 ***** and distribution of illicit drugs,” he added.

The prosecutors’ office and a spokeswoman for the FDA declined to comment to WSJ.

Meta, the FDA and the Virginia Attorney General’s office did not immediately respond to a Reuters’ request for comment.

Meta’s president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, said on social media platform X on Friday that Meta had joined up with the U.S. State Department, the ******* Nations Office on Drugs and ****** and Snapchat to help disrupt the ***** of synthetic drugs online and educate users about the associated risks.

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