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Yesterday afternoon Facebook posted about more detailed abuse reporting features now being provided for users. Facebook wants to protect those users who experience or witness “bullying, harassment, unwanted contact or offensive behavior”. That’s why the company is rolling out much more granular reporting features. Users can select from “nudity or pornography, drug use, excessive gore or violence, attacks individual or group, advertisement or spam or infringes on your intellectual property” when reporting violating images.
Videos in contrast can report from the following categories: “Not a personal video, nudity or pornography, drug use, excessive gore or violent, racist/hate speech, or targets me or a friend”. With more granular reporting features, Facebook can assign issues to the proper individuals within the company and respond quickly. With over 300 million users, scaling content filtering has been a significant challenge, as it’s managed by a relatively small team of employees.
As Jessica Ghastin writes in the company’s blog post, “The information you provide helps our international team of professional reviewers prioritize reports and know what they’re looking for when reviewing the content.” Protecting users is important to ensure that they keep coming back to the site. It’s a small upgrade but it emphasizes how important it is for Facebook to have efficient filtering mechanisms.
about time
They are continuing to perpetuate the myth that nudity and pornography are the same thing. The facts are really very clear. The attitudes that they encourage are known to result in widespread and often serious harm. The facts are crystal clear and the mechanisms are well understood. Why then do the likes of Facebook continue to encourage worldwide the attitudes which have made the USA the teenage pregnancy capital of the world? Why do they encourage attitudes which make a teenager in the USA over seventy times more likely to catch gonorrhoea than a teenager in some of the most liberal western countries? It couldn’t have anything to do with making money by pandering to prejudice could it?
This is just another attempt by the secret tribunal of the cloud to establish more control over content the way that Apple does. On the surface it sounds good. But in depth, you are being regulated. Just ask the nursing mothers.
I am seeing comments left on facebook saying to my son your mother is mentally ill; this needs to end. I am RN and hold licensure in all states; comments like this are inappropriate and made only because I made a report to have a animal removed from a vacant home.
Patricia Bernard Comment was made by Christian Brenner
I have a girl whos taken a photo of me off my daughter in laws FB and put it on her own FB account with all of this nasty stuff. Im to the point where i want to leave Fb forever. Ive blocked this girl but she goes into other peoples profiles and puts stuff about me for all to see.
someone on facebook videoed my girl cousin withut her knowledge and promised circulating the nude videos to all her friends on facebook.After a brief online chat,the person shoed her the videos he had taken of her and to post to friends on facebook.Nothing my cousin could do about helping the situation especially as she has never met the person.She only sent a report message through writin security.A week later scam and empty videos started to circulate on facebook as if she s sending and asking everyone to have a look at her.No video is found on the screen but blank space.
Almost everyone of facebook in her community got the link as if she sent it and that’s how it circulated.She is stiill worried that this person has her video and may put it up on facebook some day.Help help pleease,how can she stop the person ?PLEASE HELP.