Earlier today, the BBC criticized Social Media platform, Facebook for failure to take down or tackle inappropriate content that depicted underaged children in inappropriate sexual manners, with “obscene comments” posted underneath. The British Broadcasting Corporation also reported group pages names that alluded to child sexualization and abuse, including those that contained stolen images.
The report had initially been made last year when BBC started an investigation upon discovering that pedophiles used the photo-sharing platform to promote their pervertedness. This, Facebook claimed it had tackled, but in a follow up article, BBC reports only 18 out of the 100 reported images were removed. Also, some accounts run by convicted pedophiles which they’d brought to Facebook’s notice in the previous complaint were yet to be taken down, despite the platform’s rules forbidding convicted sex offenders from having accounts.
BBC’s Angus Crawford wanted to question Facebook about this, so he requested an interview, which the social platform’s director of policy, Simon Milner, said he’d only agree to if examples of such photos were provided to back their claims. The request was obliged, and in a strange twist, Facebook reported both the images sent and the senders (BBC) to the UK’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre.
Facebook says reporting the images was the industry’s standard practice as viewing or sharing child exploitation images is illegal in the UK. They also claim the photos have been taken down and the case is now left for the authorities to be the judge of.
We’re just sitting here like W.T.F???!!!
