Meta Platforms removed a network of Facebook accounts posting AI-generated videos depicting adult male coaches sexually touching young female gymnasts, ballet dancers and yoga students only after being contacted by a journalist, according to a Futurism investigation. A reporter using an ordinary Facebook account flagged 10 pages distributing the clips, which the outlet classified as adult content and sexual exploitation. A week later, Meta notified the reporter that eight of the pages did not violate its Community Standards and would stay online; the other two had disappeared, though it could not be determined whether the reports played any role. The eight notifications were identical, stating Facebook had reviewed the pages and found they did not breach its rules. Within a short time of the outlet putting questions to Meta's media relations team, all of the pages were gone, and several earlier support messages were revised to say the pages had violated Facebook's rules and been removed. Meta confirmed the takedowns, saying material depicting abuse or exploitation has no place on its platforms regardless of whether it is real or machine-generated, and that the accounts were removed for policy violations. Asked why its response differed between a routine user report and a press inquiry, Meta pointed to its enforcement record, saying that just last quarter it proactively found and removed 98 percent of child endangerment posts before they were ever reported. The investigation also found that after the pages were reported, Facebook's recommendation system began surfacing more similar videos in the feed of the account used to flag them, and one clip amassed more