{"id":1415905,"date":"2022-04-02T08:29:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T12:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1415905"},"modified":"2022-04-02T08:29:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T12:29:44","slug":"facebook-moderators-were-allegedly-told-to-err-on-the-side-of-an-adult-with-potential-child-sexual-abuse-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-moderators-were-allegedly-told-to-err-on-the-side-of-an-adult-with-potential-child-sexual-abuse-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Moderators Were Allegedly Told to \u201cErr on the Side of an Adult\u201d With Potential Child Sexual Abuse Material"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffacebook-moderators-were-allegedly-told-to-err-on-the-side-of-an-adult-with-potential-child-sexual-abuse-material%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1415905&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">According to recent reports, Facebook\u2019s content moderators are told to \u201cerr on the side of an adult\u201d when unsure of the age of a victim in potential child sexual abuse material (CSAM).<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/31\/business\/meta-child-sexual-abuse.html\">recent report<\/a> from the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em> reveals that Facebook\u2019s training documents for the company\u2019s content moderators instruct them to \u201cerr on the side of an adult\u201d when they don\u2019t know the age of an individual shown in a photo or video suspected of being child sexual abuse material (CSAM).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_8457131\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2018\/04\/GettyImages-944363520.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4738586\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-159548126.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4738586\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-159548126.jpg\" alt=\"zuckerberg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Josh Edelson\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Companies like Facebook are required to monitor their platforms for child sexual abuse material and if found, report it to the\u00a0National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). Many tech firms employ content moderators to review content flagged as potential CSAM.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Verge reports that the policy that instructs Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s moderators to \u201cerr on the side of an adult\u201d was made for Facebook\u2019s content moderators at the third-party contractor Accenture and is mentioned in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.californialawreview.org\/print\/internet-gov-tech-companies-as-government-agents-and-the-future-of-the-fight-against-child-sexual-abuse\/\"><em>California Law Review<\/em> article from August, which states:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Interviewees also described a policy called \u201cbumping up,\u201d which each of them personally disagreed with. The policy applies when a content moderator is unable to readily determine whether the subject in a suspected CSAM photo is a minor (\u201cB\u201d) or an adult (\u201cC\u201d). In such situations, content moderators are instructed to assume the subject is an adult, thereby allowing more images to go unreported to NCMEC.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s head of safety, Antigone Davis, told the <i>Times\u00a0<\/i>that the policy is accurate and attempts to take into account the privacy concerns of those posting sexual imagery of adults. Davis told the\u00a0<em>NYT<\/em>:\u00a0\u201cThe sexual abuse of children online is abhorrent,\u201d and emphasized that the company employs a rigorous review process that flags more potential CSAM than any other company.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/31\/business\/meta-child-sexual-abuse.html\"><em>New York Times<\/em> here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<\/i><i><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lucasnolan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@LucasNolan<\/a>\u00a0<\/i><i>or email him at\u00a0<\/i><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/\">lnolan@breitbart.com<\/a><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to recent reports, Facebook\u2019s content moderators are told to \u201cerr on the side of an adult\u201d when unsure of the age of a victim in potential child sexual abuse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}