A secret exchange group for child pornographic images exists on Facebook


By

Peter Voerman

Anyone can easily create a 'group' on Facebook and share the latest status and photos among the members who joined the group. The BBC has revealed the existence of a 'secret group created solely to exchange child pornographic images' that abused the group.

Paedophiles use secret Facebook groups to swap images --BBC News
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35521068

When creating a group on Facebook, users are free to decide on the privacy settings of the group. The privacy setting can be selected from 'public', 'private' and 'secret', but the child pornography image exchange group revealed by the BBC has privacy that can not be joined unless invited or added by the current member. It was set. Secret groups are only allowed to view content by group members.



The BBC has discovered several secret groups on Facebook run by child lovers. The name of the group found was apparently suggestive of including child pornographic images within the group. Images posted to the group were downloaded from the school's official website, newspapers, blogs, apparel shop websites, etc., and the comment section of the image was filled with unbearable comments.

An image of a 10-11 year old girl wearing a uniform was posted in a group called 'cute teen schoolies' where the BBC succeeded in pretending to be a child lover. It was commented as 'yum yum (it looks delicious)'.

The BBC reported a violation of the image posted on 'cute teen schoolies' to Facebook, but Facebook did not remove the image as 'not violating

community regulations'. Also, although I reported a violation for another group called 'we love school girlz', the group was not deleted. A total of 20 violating images were reported, some of which were deleted by the group operator, but only 4 were forcibly deleted by Facebook.



A couple who had the experience of downloading images from their daughter's blog and posting them on a website where child lovers gathered said, 'Unknowing my daughter's image, it is circulating among child lovers. It was really shocking. It's just as shocking that Facebook leaves a group of child lovers together. Facebook monitors the hidden behavior of secret groups by child lovers. I think I have a duty, 'he said.

In addition, the 'Children's Commissioner for England ', a British government agency that prevents the spread of child pornographic images and promotes awareness, said, 'I was very surprised that the group of child lovers did not violate Facebook's community regulations. I don't think we're doing enough to protect our children. '

The BBC, who had applied for an interview with Facebook regarding this incident but was rejected, contacted Rishi Saha, who is responsible for Facebook's public policy, at an event venue and asked about the existence of a secret group. 'If you have a violation report for a particular group, it's important to do an appropriate investigation. If you share the data or images you get with me, we'll get in touch with the investigation department right away. , We will check if the investigation is done properly and if the inappropriate content is deleted. '

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