A Facebook employee was allegedly captured on video saying he sent sexually explicit messages to a person he believed to be a 13-year-old boy.
Jeren Miles, manager of community development at Facebook’s parent company Meta, has reportedly been fired after getting caught in an amateur sting operation in which he shared sexually inappropriate messages with and tried to meet with a person he thought was a teenager.
Miles said he had flirted with a boy online and considered meeting up with him at a hotel during a business trip in Columbus, Ohio, according to a video taken by a group of anti-pedophile activists called Predator Catchers Indianapolis.
A Meta spokesperson confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation that Miles was a Meta employee and is no longer with the company.
“The seriousness of these allegations cannot be overstated,” the spokesperson told DCNF. “The individual is no longer employed with the company. We are actively investigating this situation and cannot provide further comment at this time.”
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Miles acknowledged he had some inappropriate communications but distanced himself from being an actual pedophile in the live-streamed interrogation of him by Predator Catchers Indianapolis.
“I was flirting, I was talking to him,” Miles admitted. But “there was never any intention of ever meeting up with him.”
However, Miles later acknowledged he had discussed meeting with the boy at Miles’s hotel.
“I gave information, a location, and all that stuff. Yes, it could be perceived like that,” Miles said.
He added this was the only time he had flirted with a teenage boy and repeatedly claimed he had no intention of meeting with the child.
According to an archived copy of his resume online, Miles was previously the head of community affairs at ride-share company Lyft and earlier in his career worked as a coordinator for the Indiana Coalition to Improve Adolescent Health.
Miles is an LGBTQ activist and, as of last May, served on the board of directors for Equality California, the nation’s largest statewide LGBTQ+ civil rights organization.
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He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in sociology from Purdue University in Indianapolis.
