Facebook’s parent company Meta allegedly deactivated the decoy account of a 13-year-old boy that led to their employee getting caught in a sting operation on video.
“After we caught him, [our] decoy account was terminated,” said Eric Schmutte, who filmed the sting operation live, on Thursday. “It’s gone.”
Schmutte, the Predator Catchers Indianapolis president, claimed he hadn’t heard from the social platform regarding Jeren Miles, manager of community development at Meta, since he was reportedly fired after getting caught in an amateur sting operation. During the incident, Miles allegedly shared sexually inappropriate messages with and tried to meet a person he thought was a teenager.
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“Facebook has not reached out to us about this. They have not,” Schmutte said. “But what Facebook did do, I’ll tell you what Facebook did do, the decoy account that was talking to Jeren, which was Shaunda’s decoy, they terminated it.”
Following their amateur sting, Schmutte, who’s been involved for nearly two years, claimed their organization came under increased scrutiny.
“The next day, my YouTube channel got strikes, two videos got taken down,” Schmutte said. “They started coming after us.”
The original live video is no longer accessible on Facebook, either. Meanwhile, similar videos featuring other suspects main on the platform.
“It’s kind of suspicious that right after we catch this guy, our videos started getting taken down, our decoy account gets taken away. It’s a little fishy,” Schmutte said.
YouTube and Meta reportedly cited their policies against child endangerment when they removed the account and videos.
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Meta did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
