Revenge porn is one of the nightmares Facebook, Inc (NASDAQ:FB) has been struggling with. The massive social network is edging closer to combating the problem. This business admits that it has taken it quite long to discover techniques to eliminate revenge porn from the platform.
A close look
The distressful aspect is just how vigilant the bad actors have been along the way. They have kept on sharing the images despite the strong efforts by the company to combat the issue.
The social media guru has wide-ranging innovations, including WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram. All of these have grown very popular over the years. Facebook has termed that revenge porn an unfortunate phenomenon in its business operations and promises to fight it to the end. It has been compelled to asses over 500,000 reports of revenge porn very month and thus sees the need to intervene.
Efforts to combat the vice
The unveiling of several artificial intelligence tools by the company recently may help a great deal. They have the capacity to detect revenge porn, which is also commonly referred to as non-consensual intimate images.
Efforts along this line started in 2017 when it unveiled a pilot program in this regard. It had called upon users to forward their intimate pictures. This would make it easier for it to fight the vice of sharing these images on the platform.
The head of product policy research at Facebook Radha Plumb reveals that the pilot wasn’t quite clear. It became a massive failure, but later the company would make its next move. This was a research program launched in 2018, and it sought to curb revenge porn. Asides from that, it would also be focusing on offering support to the affected persons.
The company’s product team says that it was very moved to know how devastated victims were. It realized that it needed to do much more than just listen to reports and so it decided to act.
Reports indicate the social media giant’s dedication to fighting off the bad practices. It has already set aside a team compromising of 25 members to look into the matter.
