“With its billions of users, Facebook is one place where many offenders aggress because they can maximize the harm by broadcasting the nonconsensual porn to those most close to the victim. So this is impactful.”In the Australian pilot, users must first complete an online form on the e-safety commissioner’s website outlining their concerns. Roughly 4% of US internet users have been victims of revenge porn, according to a 2016 report from the Data & Society Research Institute. This builds on existing tools Facebook has to deal with revenge porn. Facebook, Twitter and Google all use the the same hash database to identify and remove illegal images.

Source: The Guardian November 07, 2017 22:16 UTC