Facebook Marketplace rife with banned, recalled products, regulator says

Facebook's online marketplace is rife with banned and recalled products, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, which is calling on 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 and prevent products known to be dangerous from being offered for sale on its site. 

"CPSC staff has found that such consumer products constitute a serious threat to the health and lives of consumers, including infants and toddlers, and are appearing with regular frequency on Facebook Marketplace," CPSC Chair Alex Hoehn-Saric stated in a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.