Facebook Faces Flak Over 'Sexual Images' From Minors Survey

Facebook made a rather questionable decision this weekend. For some reason, it asked whether users approved of the sending pedophilic textile on the platform.

Co-ordinate to The Guardian, Facebook issued the survey to a select grouping of users on Sunday.

"How would yous handle the following: a individual message in which an adult man asks a 14 year former daughter for sexual pictures," the question asked. Respondents were given 4 answers, including: "This content should be allowed on Facebook, and I would not heed seeing it."

A follow-upwardly question asked who should decide this Facebook dominion. Answers included the company itself, tertiary-political party experts, or the users.

However, the survey doesn't appear to point out that request for sexual pictures from minors is illegal. Answers to the two survey question likewise fail to mention contacting police enforcement or child protective services as options, The Guardian said.

"I mean, this is not the kind of topic yous should be determining policy on past surveying your readers. Facebook so out of touch with the real earth," tweeted Jonathan Haynes, digital editor for The Guardian.

In response, Facebook called the survey a error. "We run surveys to empathise how the customs thinks about how nosotros set policies. But this kind of activity is and volition ever be completely unacceptable on FB," said company'due south VP for product management, Guy Rosen, said in a tweet.

"Nosotros regularly work with government if identified. It shouldn't have been part of this survey. That was a mistake," he added.

It isn't clear how many users were exposed to the survey or in what regions. Facebook simply told PCMag: "We sometimes ask for feedback from people almost our community standards and the types of content they would find most apropos on Facebook."

Co-ordinate to The Guardian, the same survey also asked similar questions virtually content that glorifies extremism, and whether Facebook's polices were developed in a fair, transparent manner.

Source: https://sea.pcmag.com/news/19931/facebook-faces-flak-over-sexual-images-from-minors-survey

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