Facebook failed to remove reported extremist posts: The Times


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 13 Apr 2017

Cross checking: Facebook said it would work with several leading French news organisations to ensure that false news items were not published on its platform. — Reuters

LONDON: Facebook failed to remove dozens of instances of extremist and child pornography even after the social network's moderators were directly informed of the potentially illegal content, an investigation by The Times showed on April 13.

Using a fake profile set up last month, a Times journalist found images and videos glorifying Islamic State and recent deadly attacks in London and Egypt, along with graphic images of child abuse, and asked site moderators to remove them.

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