{"id":26187,"date":"2017-04-06T10:41:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T10:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=26187"},"modified":"2017-04-06T10:41:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T10:41:48","slug":"facebook-steps-fight-revenge-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/facebook-steps-fight-revenge-porn.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook steps up fight against revenge porn"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:22px;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Facebook steps up fight against revenge porn<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Facebook is stepping up its efforts to battle revenge porn, a form of online harassment that a Data &amp; Society survey says affects one in 25 Americans.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">The social media giant said in a blog post Wednesday that once a revenge-porn picture is reported and removed, new artificial intelligence photo-matching technologies are used to prevent that same image from being posted on Facebook Messenger and Instagram.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page that sharing intimate photos online as a means of shaming an individual is &quot;wrong, it&#39;s hurtful, and if you report it to us, we will now use AI and image recognition to prevent it from being shared across all of our platforms.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Given that Facebook is creeping up on two billion global users, it&#39;s not a surprise the tech company is eager to crack down on the ways in which it serves as an echo chamber of false or harmful information.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Facebook recently started flagging so-called &quot;disputed news&quot; items that appear on its platform after concerns were raised about the website&#39;s role in inadvertently helping proliferate fake news among its users.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Facebook also has had issues with policing its site for nude photos. In early March, a report surfaced about a Marines United group that had posted nude images of current and former female soldiers. Facebook shut down the group after it was made aware of its existence.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">And last fall, an Irish judge ruled against dismissing a lawsuit brought against Facebook by a 14-year-old girl whose nude image was shared on Facebook. Although the photo was taken down once it was flagged, the plaintiff argued that Facebook failed to prevent it being repeated re-posted online.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">In her blog post, Facebook head of global safety Antigone Davis wrote that &quot;these tools, developed in partnership with safety experts, are one example of the potential technology has to help keep people safe.&quot; Some of those experts include the National Network to End Domestic Violence, Center for Social Research and the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, which offers tips on how to counter revenge porn.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">The post explained that the first step in the process requires the offending photo to be flagged by clicking on the &quot;Report&quot; link that is accessed by clicking on the arrow near a post. One of the options for why a given post is problematic is &quot;nude photo of me.&quot; Then a Community Operations team member reviews the request, and if it is deemed inappropriate, the photo is removed and blocked from appearing on Facebook, Messenger and Instagram.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">If the poster tries to surface the photo again, they&#39;re contacted by Facebook and warned that it violates their terms of service.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Currently, 35 states and Washington, D.C., have laws against online harassment, but there is no federal law against the practice.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Last year&#39;s Data &amp; Society Research Institute poll found that people ages 15 to 29 are most likely to report being threatened with the potential sharing of nude or nearly nude images, with 7% of Internet users under the age of 30 experiencing this compared with 2% of adults ages 30 and older.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Woman are particularly vulnerable, with one in 10 under the age of 30 having experienced threats of nonconsensual image sharing.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:8px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Source:-&nbsp;http:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/news\/facebook-steps-up-fight-against-revenge-porn\/429092051<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/facebook-steps-fight-revenge-porn.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook steps up fight against revenge porn Facebook is stepping up its efforts to battle revenge porn, a form of online harassment that a Data &amp; Society survey says affects one in 25 Americans. 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