Facebook Apologizes for Survey on Pedophilia; Says It Was a Mistake
To add to its woes from a slew of ongoing controversies, Facebook has managed to attract some more unwanted attending due to further internal mistakes. The social media behemothic sent users a survey asking how the company should react if/ when adults requests sexual pictures from children.
As The Guardian noted, Facebook was seeking opinions from users on what its rules should be in regards to a 'private bulletin in which an adult man asks a 14-year-onetime girl for pictures'.
Jonathan Haynes, Digital Editor at The Guardian, tweeted about this survey on Sunday. In instance you're wondering, here'due south what Facebook asked, "In thinking about an platonic world where you could set Facebook'south policies, how would y'all handle the following: a private message in which an adult man asks a 14-year-sometime girl for sexual pictures."
The question was accompanied by multiple-option answers that included assuasive or stopping the content. In improver to that, at that place was some other question on the same along the same lines. Surprisingly, the multiple-choice answers didn't include an option of contacting the police force, which is the ideal action to be taken against such behavior.
Naturally, Facebook was criticised for this survey. Withal, Guy Rosen, Facebook's Product VP decided to jump in. He tweeted dorsum to Haynes accepting that it was a error, and the questions shouldn't have been a part of this survey.
https://twitter.com/guyro/condition/970382612714856448
Following that, a Facebook spokesperson said, "We have prohibited child grooming on Facebook since our earliest days; nosotros have no intention of changing this, and nosotros regularly work with the police to ensure that anyone found interim in such a way is brought to justice."
Source: https://beebom.com/facebook-survey-pedophilia-mistake/
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