From a report on BBC: A Facebook executive has admitted to MPs its moderating process “was not working” following a BBC investigation. BBC News reported 100 posts featuring sexualised images and comments about children, but 82 were deemed not to “breach community standards.” Facebook UK director Simon Milner told MPs the problem was now fixed. He was speaking to the Commons Home Affairs committee alongside bosses from Twitter and Google as part of an investigation into online hate crime. The BBC investigation reported dozens of posts through the website tool, including images from groups where users were discussing swapping what appeared to be child abuse material. When journalists went back to Facebook with the images that had not been taken down, the company reported them to the police and cancelled an interview, saying in a statement: “It is against the law for anyone to distribute images of child exploitation.”
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