Facebook executive resigns after apparently being caught in underage sex sting

A corporate director at Facebook is out of the company after the release of what appeared to be footage of him being caught in an underage sex sting operation.

Jeren Miles, formerly a manager of global community development at Facebook parent company Meta, departed the company after video of the apparent bust was posted to the YouTube channel of the amateur group PCI Predator Catchers Indianapolis.

In the video, Miles can be seen admitting to sending inappropriate messages to an individual that he at least believed was a 13-year-old boy. 

“I was flirting, I was talking to him,” Miles tells the amateur investigators in the video though he claimed that “there was never any intention of meeting up with” the alleged boy. 

Meta appeared to have dismissed Miles after the video was released. “The individual is no longer employed with the company. We are actively investigating this situation and cannot provide further comment at this time,” the company told TechCrunch.

Miles’s social media profiles had been quickly scrubbed from the Internet after the video was posted. 

TechCrunch, meanwhile, reported that a Meta spokesman "tried to talk [TechCrunch] out of the newsworthiness of this story over the phone before sending over the statement, noting that other outlets were not covering it."