Inside Facebook’s fight against revenge porn. Reporting by oliviasolon. (1/6)
“Originally our policy focused on nudity that was shared without consent, but we found that there are images that may be shared without consent that wouldn’t violate our nudity policy but are used to harass somebody,” said Antigone Davis, Facebook’s head of global safety.
Facebook’s systems scan each post for clues, some of them subtle. For example, the inclusion of a laughing-face emoji along with a phrase like “look at this” are two potential indications that an image could be revenge porn, according to the company.“Our goal is to find the vengeful context, and the nude or near-nude, and however many signals we need to look at, we’ll use that,” said Mike Masland, Facebook’s product manager for fighting revenge porn.
Bowden discovered that the only way to get her photos removed was to copyright them and then issue takedown notices to websites. But they started popping up on other sites like 4Chan and Discord, a chat platform for gamers.Soon Bowden started to connect with other victims she found online to help them get their photos taken down, and she created a Facebook group for what she called the “BADASS Army,” which accumulated 3,000 members in 18 months.
“Facebook doesn’t seem to have a whole lot of empathy,” Bowden said of the language the company uses in its policies and reporting systems. On the back end, the company has made this type of material a priority in queues for content moderation. Now, anything flagged as revenge porn is treated with a similar level of urgency as content related to self harm.
“Instagram is awful,” Bowden said. “They take forever to respond and they are not shutting down accounts that are bad.”
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