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In reply to the discussion: Child Brides in Africa Are Advertised on Facebook and Sold to Old Men [View all]Sapient Donkey
(1,568 posts)Automatic flagging of posts with certain characteristics and behaviors of users is possible and likely something they are or will be doing, but this will mean there will need to be people dedicated to updating the algorithms and rules as people doing it adapt by using more cryptic methods. This also means they will have to become more invasive on private conversations. For example, let's say a father posts photo and the intent of what he is doing is inferred for whatever reason. So maybe facebook notices the father posted photos girls within a certain age range using some automatic detection. So facebook flags that account and continues to monitor behavior such as receiving unsolicited messages from people outside of his network. Which in turn would lead to facebook processing the private messages from the father and these people. Then ultimately to actual people who would do a review to confirm what the system thinks it detected.
My half-baked idea above is probably oversimplified, but I think it illustrates the general idea of what sort things need to be done to stop this. When we say facebook needs to do something. We're asking them to invade our privacy even more than they already are. I'm personally fine with that because I don't do/say anything online that I don't want anyone to know unless I have full control over what I am doing. I also don't really see any other way to prevent this from being facilitated by these social media platforms. They have to do creepy stuff to prevent it from happening. However, I know not everyone shares that sentiments and that's something these companies have to deal with.