Facebook Child Exploitation Safety Features You Need To Know
Facebook is the largest social media platform dealing with child pornography, trafficking and sexual exploitation. Here are Facebook’s safety features against child exploitation.
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What is NCMEC?
Facebook has partnered with National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to better understand and train their content moderators to know what to look for when filtering content presented by Facebook’s AI.
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is a private, not-for-profit 501 (c) (3) company whose mission is to help locate missing children, reduce the sexual exploitation of children, and prevent the victimization of children. children.
NCMEC works with families, victims, the private sector, law enforcement and the public to help prevent child abductions, recover missing children, and provide services to deter and combat the sexual exploitation of children. children.
Facebook security features they implement?
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Facebook’s multi-pronged approach to monitoring and moderating their content, here are Facebook’s security features:
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Prevention
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Detection
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Reply
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Policies for the Facebook community
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Tools to give people control
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Resources at each point of service
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Partnerships to complement our expertise
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Feedback to keep improving
Facebook has a diverse team of experts who work to keep users safe. Over 35,000 people work on security and safety around the world, including experts in law enforcement, counterterrorism, anti-trafficking, child protection, online security, analytics, engineering and forensic investigations.
Previous positions and experience on the team include former FBI agents, human rights experts, security engineers, US Marine Corps officers, Indian Army captains , Australian Federal Police, data scientists and more.
What is their AI doing?
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For years, they have used technology to find exploitative child content and detect possible inappropriate interactions with children or child grooming. But they have expanded their work to detect and remove networks that violate our child exploitation policies, as have our efforts against coordinated inauthentic behavior and dangerous organizations.
In addition, they have updated our child safety policies to clarify that they will remove Facebook profiles, pages, groups and Instagram accounts dedicated to sharing otherwise innocent images of children with captions, hashtags or comments containing inappropriate signs of affection or comment about the children depicted in the image.
They have always removed content that explicitly sexualizes children, but content that is not explicit and does not represent child nudity is more difficult to define. As part of this new policy, while images alone cannot break our rules, accompanying text can help us better determine if content sexualizes children and if the profile, page, group or account associated must be deleted.
Update your tools
After consultations with experts and child safety organizations, they made it easier to report content for violating our child exploitation policies. To do so, they added the ability to choose “involves a child” from the “Nudity and Sexual Activity” category for reporting in more places on Facebook and Instagram.
These reports will be considered in order of priority. They’ve also started using Google’s Content Safety API to help us better prioritize content that may be exploited by children so that our content reviewers can rate it.
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What can you do to help exploited children?
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According to their data, over 90% of content is shared / re-shared content previously. The majority of the content comes from a handful of countries concentrated in certain regions.
Over 75% of these reports involve people sharing with “non-malicious intent” (according to NCMEC: bad mood, outrage, speechless)
The first step is not to share the content at all, even if it is out of anger. It helps people who shared the content in the first place to get what they want. This allows people to share the content they have posted.
The second step is to immediately report the post that you believe is exploiting children. This will allow Facebook and their team to immediately discover the content and remove it from the source. So be sure to post instead of sharing and that’s the best thing you can do for these kids.
Sources:
Facebook, NCMEC
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