Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have unwittingly become platforms for the spread fake news, violent groups and sexual harassment. Facebook released a statement on Thursday explaining that its "limited" pilot in Australia aims to "prevent non-consensual intimate images from being posted and shared anywhere on Facebook, Messenger and Instagram." This is meant to protect users from sexual harassers and victims of revenge porn. Once the photo is hashed, Facebook will notify the user via a secure email to delete the photo from the Messenger thread. The user will have to delete the photo from Messenger for Facebook to remove it from its servers.

Source: India Today November 10, 2017 11:03 UTC