{"id":934011,"date":"2021-10-28T18:29:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T22:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=934011"},"modified":"2021-10-28T18:29:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T22:29:04","slug":"anonymous-whistleblower-facebooks-response-to-child-sexual-abuse-is-inadequate-and-under-resourced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anonymous-whistleblower-facebooks-response-to-child-sexual-abuse-is-inadequate-and-under-resourced\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous Whistleblower: Facebook&#039;s Response to Child Sexual Abuse Is &#039;Inadequate&#039; and &#039;Under-Resourced&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fanonymous-whistleblower-facebooks-response-to-child-sexual-abuse-is-inadequate-and-under-resourced%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=934011&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\">A former Facebook employee reportedly told U.S. authorities recently that the social media giant\u2019s efforts to remove child sexual abuse material have been \u201cinadequate\u201d and \u201cunder-resourced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-59063768\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;that a former Facebook employee has spoken with U.S. authorities about the company\u2019s response to child sexual abuse material on its platform, calling it \u201cinadequate\u201d and \u201cunder-resourced.\u201d<\/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_11271932\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"41\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1140291756-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11271932\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1140291756-1.jpg\" alt width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is applauded as he delivers the opening keynote introducing new Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram privacy features at the Facebook F8 Conference at McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California on April 30, 2019. \u2013 Got a crush on another Facebook user? The social network will help you connect, as part of a revamp unveiled Tuesday that aims to foster real-world relationships and make the platform a more intimate place for small groups of friends. (Photo by Amy Osborne \/ AFP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_17756170\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Mark-Zuckerberg-Smiles-during-testimony.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17756170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Mark-Zuckerberg-Smiles-during-testimony.jpg\" alt width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Zuckerberg Smiles during testimony (Pool\/Getty)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The whistleblower reportedly submitted to the&nbsp;U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) two weeks ago and seen by the BBC.&nbsp;The whistleblower \u2014 who has remained anonymous \u2014 stated that Facebook moderators are \u201cnot sufficiently trained and are ill-prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response, Facebook said in a statement: \u201cWe have no tolerance for this abhorrent abuse of children and use sophisticated technologies to combat it. We\u2019ve funded and helped build the tools used by industry to investigate this terrible crime, rescue children and bring justice to victims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Facebook added that it has shared anti-abuse technologies with other companies. In a sworn statement to the SEC, the anonymous whistleblower said that there was no solution in place to stop illegal material hosted on Facebook\u2019s platform as the company did not have \u201cadequate assets devoted to the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The whistleblower claims that a small team was formed to develop software that could detect child sexual abuse material on the platform and improve moderation, but it was broken up and redeployed as the project was seen as \u201ctoo complex.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Facebook says that it uses technology known as PhotoDNA and VideoDNA to scan for known child sexual abuse images. Images of child pornography recovered by law enforcement worldwide and referred to the American National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children are given unique identifier codes making it easier for automated systems to track the images online.<\/p>\n<p>The whistleblower further alleged that Facebook is unaware of the scale of the issue of child sexual abuse on its platform as it \u201cdoesn\u2019t track it\u201d and that senior managers constantly questioned efforts to address the issue, asking \u201cwhat\u2019s the return on investment?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Facebook is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/02\/26\/report-facebook-a-hotbed-of-child-sexual-abuse-material-with-20m-incidents\/\">known hotbed<\/a> of child sexual abuse material, as previously reported by Breitbart News.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in February:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"20.489465153971\">\n<p>The Daily Beast&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/facebook-a-hotbed-of-child-sexual-abuse-material-with-203-million-reports-far-more-than-pornhub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;that according to&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.missingkids.org\/content\/dam\/missingkids\/gethelp\/2020-reports-by-esp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">new data<\/a>&nbsp;from the&nbsp;National Center for Missing and Exploited Children\u2019s (NCMEC) CyberTipline, the vast majority of online child exploitation reports were linked to Facebook. The study found that over 20.3 million reported incidents related to child pornography or trafficking were linked to Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>In comparison to the millions of incidents reported on Facebook, Google had 546,704 incidents, Twitter found 65,062, Snapchat reported 144,095, and TikTok found 22,692. Facebook accounted for almost 95 percent of the 21.7 million reports combined across all platforms.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-59063768\">BBC News 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&nbsp;<\/i><i><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lucasnolan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@LucasNolan<\/a>&nbsp;<\/i><i>or contact via secure email at the address&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"mailto:lucasnolan@protonmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">lucasnolan@protonmail.com<\/a><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Facebook employee reportedly told U.S. authorities recently that the social media giant\u2019s efforts to remove child sexual abuse material have been \u201cinadequate\u201d and \u201cunder-resourced.\u201d BBC News reports\u00a0that a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"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-934011","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\/934011","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934011\/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=934011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}