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Facebook’s online marketplace is full of banned and recalled products, according to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, which is urging the social media giant to curtail the dangerous listings.
The agency on Wednesday urged Meta, Facebook’s parent company, to use its “considerable resources and technological expertise” to identify products known to be dangerous and prevent them from being listed for sale on its site. .
“CPSC personnel have determined that such consumer products pose a serious threat to the health and lives of consumers, including infants and toddlers, and regularly appear on the Facebook Marketplace,” said CPSC Chairman Alex Hoehn-Saric in a letter to Meta CEO Mark. Zuckerberg.
1/ Today I sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg requesting him to join him @Meta‘s efforts to prevent banned and recalled consumer products from being offered for sale on their platforms, including Facebook Marketplace. Read the letter here: https://t.co/RiI3e7IPPG
— Alex Hoehn-Saric (@HoehnSaricCPSC) July 13, 2022
Meta is only one player in the online consumer product resale market, but it makes up a large and growing share of CPSC’s product removal requests as it identifies unsafe items for sale online. In 2020, about half of such requests were made by CPSC to Facebook Marketplace, and that percentage has so far increased to about 75% by 2022, Hoehn-Saric said.
“While Facebook Marketplace currently has policies in place to prevent the listing of controlled substances, counterfeit goods, and other illegal products, they are widely circumvented or ignored in relation to products under the jurisdiction of the CPSC,” the agency’s chairman said. to Zuckerberg.
Meta defended the enforcement of its policy in an emailed statement.
“We have invested heavily in our approach to safety and have more than 40,000 people in Meta working on safety and security, including teams who proactively enforce our trade policy that prohibits the sale of recalled goods,” a spokesperson told CBS MoneyWatch in an email. -mail. “As with other platforms where people can buy and sell goods, there can be instances where people knowingly or unknowingly sell recalled goods on the Marketplace. We take this issue seriously and if we find any listings that violate our rules, we’ll remove them.”
Facebook opened its Marketplace section in 2016 and soon found it hosting ads offering all sorts of illegal and strange items for sale, in violation of its stated policy. At the time, Facebook blamed the rocky rollout on a “technical problem.”
Other retailers, including Amazon, eBay and Walmart, have also been criticized in the past after third parties used their platforms to sell offensive goods in violation of said rules.