According to the English newspaper The Guardian, which has come into possession of the Facebook Files, reports from users have led to the removal of 14 thousand accounts
Despite the attempts made by Facebook to combat revenge porn, which consists in the publication of intimate images of the ex-partner or girlfriend for revenge, the pages of the social network continue to be invaded by this type of offensive content: in a month 54 thousand cases reported.
This is written by the British newspaper The Guardian, which came into possession of the "Facebook Files", documents that show the rules used by the social network to choose which content to show and which, instead, to block, taking into account a number of elements, including sex and pornography. According to information disclosed by the newspaper, only in January, Facebook removed about 14 thousand accounts, responsible for having published sexually offensive content. And analyzing the data, the picture becomes even more worrying: of these reported cases, 33, unfortunately, involved children.
Sextortion has also been reported
The reports received by Facebook in January - Mark Zuckerberg's social network still entrusts users with the task of identifying the presence of content that violates its policies - include cases not only of revenge porn, but also of sextortion, a technique with which cybercriminals lure a person onto the web, have a risqué photo sent to them and threaten to publish it if the victim doesn't pay. Of the 54,000 abuses reported to Facebook, there were 2450 cases of sextortion and led to the deactivation of 9020 profiles. The rest were all cases of revenge porn: 51300 reports and 5110 account removals.
The abuses perpetrated on the pages of the social network could be many more. This is because the system relies mainly on the reports of users, who are responsible for judging whether or not content is in line with Facebook policies.