To wonder what the hell *does* break Facebook community standards

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I saw some proper porn on Facebook today. Someone had tagged a friend in it and so it appeared on my news feed. I presume they had been hacked.

There was a series of pictures that were clearly pornographic, and some text about someone drugging someone. Full frontal genital penetration shots and the implication that it was rape as well. Really jarring when you're scrolling down minion quotes and kitten pictures.

So I reported it and clicked on the "sexually explicit material" option. I got a message back saying the post had been reviewed and judged not to contain nudity.

What the hell?! It's still there. I've heard about FB removing breastfeeding pictures and children in the bath, etc - how have they left this up?

I've never seen any offensive videos on Facebook because I choose not to click on vids and play them. Works for me.
You can turn off the 'auto play' or whatever it's called in your settings.

warning I'm about to mention some horrible things here!

I really, really agree with you. I have reported a picture of a human hand sliced into pieces by some kind of torture device, and a picture of what appeared to be a dead child. These things were not posted by friends, but in group discussions. They were completely out of context on both occasions - just some weirdos posting anti-muslim propaganda illustrated with these horrific pictures, in the middle of a discussion about something uncontroversial, I don't even remember what. But, no. Apparently they reviewed my complaint and decided that these pictures were not offensive enough.

I've clicked & said I haven't been happy with how they've dealt with my complaint & they have then followed up. In the last instance it was someone selling illegal drugs, initially the report came back that there wasn't a problem, then when I asked why Facebook was acting as an agent for drug dealers they deleted. I think you have to follow up your initial report, not just accept it if you disagree.

You don't leave it at that though do you crusts? You go onnnnn and onnnnnnnnn.

I don't mind a GF I can get into a debate with. You just don't cut the mustard

I reported someone for requesting hard drugs in a group. That also, didn't violate their standards

I love the idea that because Facebook is free they are somehow doing me a favour. Its founder is the 16th richest person in the world, we're customers, and they are not delivering the service that they state they offer.

But Facebook users aren't Facebook's customers: Facebook's customers are advertisers, Facebook's users are the 'product' that Facebook sells.

Anyway, back on topic... what you reported does sound shocking, don't blame you for reporting it, but it does also sound like you will have to follow it up if you want any joy.

Nigella - that is very easy to say. I never click play either, but a friend of a friend of mine was hacked, my friend was tagged in porn videos which appeared in my newsfeed. I think about 6 or 8 within a couple of hours until my friend got his (elderly, v respectable and now quite embarrassed) friend to delete his account altogether. Really grim images that I can't now unsee....

It wasn't a video. It was a series of still shots. They really packed a lot of offensiveness into a very small space!

Did you know that Facebook have a deep web address?

I reported 2 porn videos a few weeks ago.

They replied "Our Update.
We reviewed the post you reported for containing nudity. Since it violated our Community Standards, we removed it. Thanks for your report."

It did take them a few days to reply.

Yanbu at all! I was livid at this yesterday when i some people posted some extremely racist things on a post.
Apparently it didn't violate community standards, neither did the homophobic things then posted
The 'community standards' thing is a complete joke.