Facebook has known it has a Human Trafficking problem for years. It still hasn't fully fixed it

[Budi]

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Human trafficking is overwhelmingly organized crime. So this headline should be “Facebook has a problem because they’re still a vendor for transnational organized crime.”

FROM CNN:
Facebook has known it has a human trafficking problem for years. It still hasn't fully fixed it
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/10/25/tech/facebook-instagram-app-store-ban-human-trafficking/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

The company has known about human traffickers using its platforms in this way since at least 2018, the documents show. It got so bad that in 2019, Apple (AAPL) threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram's access to the App Store, a platform the social media giant relies on to reach hundreds of millions of users each year. Internally, Facebook (FB) employees rushed to take down problematic content and make emergency policy changes avoid what they described as a "potentially severe" consequence for the business.

But while Facebook managed to assuage Apple's concerns at the time and avoid removal from the app store, issues persist.
The stakes are significant:
Facebook documents describe women trafficked in this way being subjected to physical and sexual abuse, being deprived of food and pay, and having their travel documents confiscated so they can't escape.
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The Facebook Papers:

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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1452587617644601346.html
"Having spent a long time going through the leaked FB docs it’s clear pockets of FB are painfully aware of how its platform can harm people. It has also conducted countless experiments to try to mitigate those harms.
Its failure to do more seems partly strategic (business priorities) but a lot to do with the left hand not talking to the right hand and other structural inefficiencies in a sprawling bureaucracy
It certainly breaks things, but it doesn’t/can’t really move fast due to significant corporate bottlenecks"
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In the end, it amounts to nothing more than Profit Over People & their Corporate bottom line..
The rest is bs.

[Scrivener7]

1. What's a little trafficking when we're talking about sharing my pictures of restaurant meals?

[Budi]

2. This reply was a point I'd not considered:

Replying to
@ericgarland
... it just dawned on me why Facebook & others of their ilk have been looking at floating server farms

it's got nothing to do with cooling or space & everything to do with jurisdiction

Hmmm..

[Igel]

4. US policy has the same kind of problem.

But that's not considered a problem, even thought that has had the weight of the US government behind it, well, since at least the 1980s.

Even China has trouble with curtailing proscribed speech.

Facebook should be better than the US government and more monitoring than the Chinese.

[Blue Owl]

3. Fuckkkerberg probably uses his fancy hoverboard for sex trafficking -- the flag is just a decoy