US investigating Meta for role in illicit drug sales, WSJ reports

:U.S. prosecutors in Virginia are probing whether Fb-mum or dad Meta’s social media platforms facilitated and profited from the illegal sale of gear, the Wall Boulevard Journal reported on Saturday, citing paperwork and folk aware of the matter.

The prosecutors sent subpoenas final twelve months and had been asking questions as half of a felony gargantuan jury probe, the anecdote mentioned, adding that they’ve additionally been inquiring for data connected to drug hiss or illicit sale of gear by skill of Meta’s platforms.

The Meals and Drug Administration has additionally been helping with the investigation, the newspaper added. It notorious that investigations attain no longer frequently lead to costs of wrongdoing.

The paper quoted a spokesman for Meta as announcing in an announcement: “The sale of illicit tablets is in opposition to our insurance policies and we work to search out and eradicate this hiss from our services”.

“Meta proactively cooperates with rules enforcement authorities to aid fight the sale and distribution of illicit tablets,” he added.

The prosecutors’ self-discipline of enterprise and a spokeswoman for the FDA declined to comment to WSJ.

Meta, the FDA and the Virginia Criminal reliable Standard’s self-discipline of enterprise did no longer at as soon as acknowledge to a Reuters’ set a query to for comment.

Meta’s president of world affairs, Cut Clegg, mentioned on social media platform X on Friday that Meta had joined up with the U.S. Enlighten Division, the United Countries Administrative heart on Remedy and Crime and Snapchat to aid disrupt the sale of synthetic tablets online and educate customers about the connected risks.