US Sen. Richard Blumenthal's staff created a fake 13-year-old girl, then watched Facebook sites on eating disorders and extreme dieting follow her around the Internet, Connecticut's senior senator announced during a Thursday hearing in Washington.
That undercover sting became the backdrop for Blumenthal's charges that Facebook has staged a "relentless campaign to recruit and exploit younger users," using deceptive tactics and ignoring online safety issues that even the platform's own researchers have acknowledged.
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