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Facebook has a two-year plan to tackle grooming and child exploitation on its platforms
Measures reported include flagging of profiles, and scanning photo comments for patterns of suspicious behaviour.
Will also seek to redesign how users report inappropriate and illegal behaviour.
A report from the Financial Times has detailed how Facebook plans to combat online grooming and child exploitation across its platforms over the next two years.
According to the report, Facebook is seeking to balance its plan to encrypt messaging across its platforms with the need to monitor and prevent the exploitation of children. The report, via 9to5Mac quotes Antigone Davis, Facebook's global head of security:
She said Facebook's goal was to shift from flagging and removing illegal content to preventing abusers from contacting potential victims in the first place.
"When you find content, the problem with that is the harm has already been done. Ult...
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Facebook has a two-year plan to combat grooming and child exploitation
