1. 16:00 16th Feb 2012

    Well, now we know Facebook’s exact standards. Dekourai provided us with a copy of the astonishingly specific guidelines Facebook dictates to content moderators. It’s the public’s first look at exactly what Facebook considers beyond the pale, and what sketchy content it won’t allow in videos, images and wall posts. The document is essentially a map of Facebook’s moral terrain. The content moderation team Dekourai was a member of uses a web-based tool to view a stream of pictures, videos and wall posts that have been reported by users. They either confirm the flag, which deletes the content, unconfirm it, which lets it stay, or escalate it to a higher level of moderation, which turns the content in question over to Facebook employees.
    — Inside Facebook’s Outsourced Anti-Porn and Gore Brigade, Where ‘Camel Toes’ are More Offensive Than ‘Crushed Heads’