The Facebook Inc. application icon is displayed on an Apple Inc. iPhone in an arranged photograph taken in New York, U.S., on Thursday, July 26, 2018. Facebook shares plunged 19 percent Thursday after second-quarter sales and user growth missed Wall Street estimates. Photographer: Johannes Berg/Bloomberg
Facebook Inc is reviewing how it handles child abuse videos and preventing underage children from holding accounts, as the social network grapples with concerns it isn’t doing enough to protect users.
The tech giant is reviewing its policy of not removing videos of so-called non-sexual child abuse videos that are designed to condemn such behaviour and the child-in-question is still at risk, Facebook Ireland’s head of public policy Niamh Sweeney said at an Irish parliamentary hearing Wednesday.
