Facebook Fails To Remove Child Abuse Posts For Over A Year
It's likely that you or someone you know might have seen the Facebook error message at some point or another, notifying you that your page has been suspended for a certain period of time over posting inappropriate content.
There have been many individuals who have had their accounts suspended or even closed permanently without warning, regarding issues relating to the content that was posted under their account. In a crackdown that to many has been viewed as a wave of censorship , it's surprising to hear whenever Facebook might have any sort of a difficult time in removing any truly concerning posts from its platform.
I have seen a variety of friends have their pages promptly suspended on Facebook after they posted controversial status updates or memes, and they were reported by someone in the community. The accounts would usually be back to normal within a short amount of time. Whenever Facebook has taken to suspending or purging what it deems to be controversial accounts, it has always seemed to carry out the task in a swift manner.
Though, not always. . .
In some unfortunate circumstances, it turns out that Facebook allegedly permitted abusive content involving children to remain posted to its platform for over a year. According to court documents from India, the company neglected to remove highly sensitive content that allegedly included rape videos. There were also allegations that one Facebook page was being used to orchestrate a child sex ring.
The Supreme Court in India has ordered Facebook to work aggressively with the government in overhauling its approach in removing this sort of content when it arises. One of the ways that they hope to do that is by increasing the list of keywords that they look for.
The company has allegedly responded to the claims and said that it took the appropriate action in all circumstances where there might have been troublesome content posted. However, one user claims to have taken a screenshot of a notification from the site saying that after it had reviewed the content in-question, that it hadn't violated any community standards. Allegedly, it wasn't until the site was asked to do so by the court that they finally made the move to get rid of the posts.
There have been allegations for years regarding Facebook's purging of controversial content from its platform, and many activists saying they've been wrongfully targeted by the injustice. Not only political voices, but a variety of other random meme pages have also been removed. All the while, child abuse videos allegedly remain up for over a year? It's clear that there isn't much efficiency to their 'clean-up' approach.
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via Vocativ
Sources:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/03/facebook-allowed-child-abuse-posts-stay-online-year-indian-court-hears
https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/meme-pages-revolt-against-facebook/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccaheilweil1/2017/07/18/facebook-removes-only-a-fraction-of-hate-groups-flagged-by-activists/#2522967c2711
https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-rohingya-activists-say-facebook-silences-them
To be quite frank @doitvoluntarily facebook is pretty much useless at removing any inappropriate content and are equally inefficient at handling reported accounts too. In fact i often wonder why they even bother offering the 'report' function.
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@doitvoluntarily, yes exactly you are right that there are so many errors and fake things on Facebook, and it fails to overcome on these problems. Child abuse posts are also very serious issue but it's managemnt fail to remove it. Thanks for sharing such article.
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Thank you.
Yes they do but the sex trade account involving teens are still live on facebook shame.
Great post. Thanks for sharing
Great post. Thank for sharing @doitvoluntarily
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Facebook is guilty of a number of things. I was part of a class action suit against them for using my photo without my permission years ago. I might have won $5.