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Facebook Reports BBC To Police Following Publication's 'Sexualized Images' Investigation (bbc.com)

Posted by msmash on from the what-in-the-world dept.

"Grave doubts" have emerged about the effectiveness of Facebook's moderation system after an investigation by the BBC last year revealed the social network was failing to remove sexualised images of children even after they were reported. Damian Collins, chair of the culture, media and sport committee, made the comments as he criticised Facebook's handling of the images, dozens of which were reported to the company by the BBC and fewer than 20% were removed. After the BBC sent evidence of the photos to Facebook, the social media company reported the BBC to the police for distributing the images, which had been shared on private Facebook groups intended for paedophiles. From a report on BBC: When provided with examples of the images, Facebook reported the BBC journalists involved to the police and cancelled plans for an interview. It subsequently issued a statement: "It is against the law for anyone to distribute images of child exploitation." Mr Collins said it was extraordinary that the BBC had been reported to the authorities when it was trying to "help clean up the network." [...] Information the BBC provided to the police led to one man being sent to prison for four years.

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  1. Jewish Global Banking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    RESIST!!!

  2. YES! Finally. I have doubts too. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Facebook had no problem censoring me when I ask a simple question and posted a Pew research study. I posted this link http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-beliefs-about-sharia/ and ASKED "Is Islam compatible with Western and American values and law?" The Pew research was asking muslims if they wanted Sharia law and many did want it in the US.

    So, why does facebook post nude photos of Marines and others without them giving consent and then censor me?

  3. 'entire hacking capacity of the CIA' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    WikiLeaks publishes 'entire hacking capacity of the CIA'

  4. Where is the Vault 7 Story? by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Slashdot, we get that you have to cycle through your daily Facebook and Uber jones, but do you think maybe the Vault 7 story might just get a little air time here? Teensy weensy amount, maybe? https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/...

  5. Re: not the first time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bewildering and inexplicable . . .

    You mean like how the Democratic National Committee manipulated their primary procedures to ensure that a particular candidate was nominated, then when an employee's emails were leaked exposing that manipulation, they instead made up claims of foreign government interference?

    And then they used that supposed interference as a pretense for wiretapping the headquarters of the opposition candidate?

    And then, after their selected candidate didn't win the election because the party was overconfident in their ability to deliver critical electoral college votes, they blamed foreign government interference again, even though there's no evidence of any vote tampering?

    And then, they proceed to leak the confidential wiretapped conversations of private citizens to the media to discredit the opposition administration?