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I guess I'd like to know how accusations of criminal conduct are normally handled by facebook? Suppose a user starts posting, all over facebook, posts that acc

I guess I'd like to know how accusations of criminal conduct are normally handled by facebook? Suppose a user starts posting, all over facebook, posts that accuse a certain male of sex crimes, or... say... pedophilia. Further, this person names this male explicitly. Suppose further, the male has not been charged with any such crime. (Indeed, for all the users in his social circle know, he may not even be a suspect. He could even be completely innocent.) What is the normal course of action that facebook would take in such cases? Are the posts taken down? Is the poster warned? Does nothing at all usually happen? (That is, can a user normally make accusations of sex crimes or pedophilia without restraint?) What, exactly, happens in most cases of posts containing accusations of some form of CLEARLY criminal activity? It seems to me that whatever happens in the proverbial "girl claims a guy is a rapist to their social circle" case, should probably happen here. I think their policy should be consistent, to the extent that is possible.

rtpg 9y ago
Though you're not explicit, I bet everyone reads this as "Facebook doesn't handle false rape claims equally", though you've provided no evidence of this. Instead just relying on "internet tropes" and people will end up filling in the blanks. Not to mention that the article itself says that someone's PII was posted (presumably without consent). I don't know what it was, but it could easily have been some person's phone numbers with a call to action to harass them. That sort of stuff _does_ get taken down by Facebook. Sometimes things get out of hand, but it's usually one "report content" click away from getting removed. Maybe you honestly don't know FB's policies here, but posting this sort of comment basically reads as an accusation.

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I guess I'd like to know how accusations of criminal conduct are normally handled by facebook? Suppose a user starts posting, all over facebook, posts that acc

by bilbo0s 9y ago

rtpg 9y ago
Though you're not explicit, I bet everyone reads this as "Facebook doesn't handle false rape claims equally", though you've provided no evidence of this. Instead just relying on "internet tropes" and people will end up filling in the blanks. Not to mention that the article itself says that someone's PII was posted (presumably without consent). I don't know what it was, but it could easily have been some person's phone numbers with a call to action to harass them. That sort of stuff _does_ get taken down by Facebook. Sometimes things get out of hand, but it's usually one "report content" click away from getting removed. Maybe you honestly don't know FB's policies here, but posting this sort of comment basically reads as an accusation.