New article: Facebook goes attacking on revenge porn read more at here http://www.spinonews.com/index.php/technology/item/3242-facebook-goes-attacking-on-revenge-porn

Quite a common problem these days is of revenge porn which is a form of online harassment and as per information provided by Data & Society survey almost every 25th American is affected by this.

Facebook has stepped up its efforts to battle against this social crime of revenge porn. As per blog post from Facebook on Wednesday once a revenge-porn picture is reported and removed, new artificial intelligence photo-matching technologies are used to prevent that same image from being posted on Facebook Messenger and Instagram.

Mark Zuckerberg mentioned on his Facebook page that sharing intimate photos online as a means of shaming an individual is "wrong, it's hurtful, and if you report it to us, we will now use AI and image recognition to prevent it from being shared across all of our platforms."

With the ever rising number of Facebook users globally, the social media giant is eagerly working on cracking down on false or harmful information.

Facebook also has had issues with policing its site for nude photos. In early March, a report surfaced about a Marines United group that had posted nude images of current and former female soldiers. Facebook shut down the group after it was made aware of its existence.

And last fall, an Irish judge ruled against dismissing a lawsuit brought against Facebook by a 14 year old girl whose nude image was shared on Facebook. Although the photo was taken down once it was flagged, the plaintiff argued that Facebook failed to prevent it being repeated re-posted online.

Currently, 35 states and Washington, D.C., have laws against online harassment, but there is no federal law against the practice.

Last year's Data & Society Research Institute poll found that people ages 15 to 29 are most likely to report being threatened with the potential sharing of nude or nearly nude images, with 7% of Internet users under the age of 30 experiencing this compared with 2% of adults ages 30 and older.

 

Women in particular are more vulnerable, 1 out of 10 under the age of 30 having experienced threats of nonconsensual image sharing.

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