Facebook Uncovers 8.7m Pictures of Child Exploitation

Facebook has removed 8.7 millions of posts which related to child exploitation by its moderators in three months, said the social network. The company was having pressures of regulators and legislators around the world.
The project started two years ago but couldn’t make it happen. It gone serious when Damian Collins, the chairman of the common media committee insulted and criticized Facebook for not ensuring the privacy issue to the users.
Antigone Davis, the global security head, said that 8.7 million pieces of content that violated the site’s rules on child nudity and child exploitation had been removed from the site. The work has been possible with the help of machine learning tool.
Facebook has revealed new tools to avoid child abuse through social network. The tools can detect nudity picture with child, captures users engaged in “grooming” minors for sexual exploitation. The company is also using photo-matching technology as well as specialist human reviewers to find, identify and remove content that breached its community standards.
Davis said, “Our Community Standards ban child exploitation and to avoid even the potential for abuse, we take action on nonsexual content as well, like seemingly benign photos of children in the bath.”
“We have specially trained teams with backgrounds in law enforcement, online safety, analytics, and forensic investigations, which review content and report findings to NCMEC.”
NCMEC said it was working with Facebook to develop software to decide which advice to evaluate first. A separate system is used to block child sexual abuse imagery which has previously been reported to authorities.
Michelle DeLaune, chief operating officer at the National Center, acknowledged that a crucial blind spot were the encrypted chat apps and the “dark web” secret sites where most of the new images of child abuse originate.
Mr Stower is thinking regulation to ensure effective grooming prevention online.
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