Leaked Documents Show Facebook’s Struggles With Dick Pics
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59qzg8/facebook-dick-pics-leaked-documents-content-moderation
Facebook’s moderators are grappling with the challenges of revenge porn, sextortion, and people sharing unsolicited dick pics with users, according to newly leaked documents obtained by Motherboard. The company’s moderators have recently been told to stop punishing people who complain about receiving dick pics, which shows how Facebook’s own policies around nudity are constantly evolving.
Motherboard has obtained a selection of training materials for Facebook moderators, as well as a copy of an extended training video that offer more context on how Facebook trains it moderators to fight against revenge porn and sextortion. Some of the material overlaps with what The Guardian published in 2017, but the material provided to Motherboard is more recent and includes different information. Motherboard confirmed that some people mentioned in the training video and materials are employees of Facebook, suggesting that the materials are genuine. Facebook did not dispute specific and non-public details included in other parts of the cache when asked about them.