Facebook’s secret internal rules on porn and hate speech leaked
Leaked Facebook documents show how the social media giant moderates issues including hate speech, terrorism, pornography on its site.
According to a report by the Guardian newspaper in the UK, citing the Facebook’s internal guidelines, the social media network, moderators have become overwhelmed by the volume of work – often having “just 10 seconds” to make a decision.
The Guardian said it had seen more than 100 internal training manuals, spreadsheets and flowcharts showing ‘secret rules and guidelines’ for deciding what its two billion users can post onto the site.
The listed company is believed to review in excess of 6.5 million reports of potentially fake accounts a week. “Facebook cannot keep control of its content,” a source told the Guardian. “It has grown too big, too quickly.”
According to the Guardian:
- Videos of violent deaths, while marked as disturbing, do not always have to be deleted because they can help create awareness of issues such as mental illness.
- Facebook will allow some “newsworthy exceptions” to photographic nudity as well as “hand-made” nude art, but other photos and digital art are off-limits.
- Facebook will allow users to livestream attempts to self-harm because it “doesn’t want to censor or punish people in distress who are attempting suicide” – the paper said.
Facebook’s head of global policy management, Monica Bickert, said in a statement: “Keeping people on Facebook safe is the most important thing we do. We work hard to make Facebook as safe as possible while enabling free speech.
“This requires a lot of thought into detailed and often difficult questions, and getting it right is something we take very seriously.”
The full Guardian report can be found here
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