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To ask if a deleted post - and a warning - on facebook means one of your facebook friends had reported it

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user1491678180 · 16/01/2018 16:06

Just that really.

My brother posted a picture on facebook the other day (that he saw on 'lad bible' or something,) that was funny, and a bit cheeky, but not particularly rude.

Approx 36 hours after he posted it, it got deleted. and he got a warning from facebook, saying he would get a ban if anything else like this was posted.

Does this mean someone has reported him? Because I just don't get how the powers-that-be/admin at facebook would even have seen it. His facebook is set to private, and only his 125 friends can see what he posts. So does this mean someone has reported him to facebook?

Thanks in advance for any help. Smile

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Iamagreyhoundhearmeroar · 16/01/2018 16:09

That sounds really odd; given the stuff they allegedly refuse to take down, even when asked.

HelgasFlowers · 16/01/2018 16:11

I could be wrong but if it was a share it may be that the original source was reported and therefore all shares were automatically removed.

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user1491678180 · 16/01/2018 16:13

@iamagreyhound

I agree with that! I have known people report stuff that is disgusting and they don't remove it, saying it 'doesn't violate their terms blah blah blah!' Yet a pic that is just a bit cheeky, gets deleted, and he gets a warning.

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user1491678180 · 16/01/2018 16:14

That's the thing @helgas the original pic was still there on ladbible.

I think my bro 'saved' the pic and then reposted it without a link to ladbible IYSWIM.

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Twickerhun · 16/01/2018 16:15

Wonder if he was reported for a breach of copyright?

Jellybean85 · 16/01/2018 16:16

Yea someone reported it, anyone who can see it according to his privacy settings could have done it. What was it a pic of? Must have been more than cheeky to get that surely

MrsTerryPratchett · 16/01/2018 16:16

"A bit cheeky"? What was the subject matter?

Oldraver · 16/01/2018 16:16

My friend got a telling off for posting a photo of her 4 and 8 year old in a paddling pool in their bikinis. Facebook told her it had been 'reported' to them and she assumed it was someone on her friends list. She was spitting feathers about this and started ranting about fake friends

I reckon it was just FB being twats and putting the blame elsewhere

VivaLeBeaver · 16/01/2018 16:18

What was the pic of? If he didn't share it from source I would imagine there would be a good chance he was report

Jellybean85 · 16/01/2018 16:20

@Oldraver do you really think staff at Facebook just trawl through pics to delete and make up fake reports?
I anonymously reported a friends picture of her naked child she thought was sweet and innocent. I work in the serious case review team for social care, I see what can happen to those innocent pictures but I'm tired of repeating the same conversation with people

WrenNatsworthy · 16/01/2018 16:24

I used to work in Child Protection too @Jellybean but if one of my friends posted a pic like that I'd speak to them about their privacy settings first before anonymously reporting them! Am assuming this was a baby pic mind?

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user1491678180 · 16/01/2018 16:26

It was just a pic of a potato in the shape of a willy.

As someone said, I don't think FB trawl peoples accounts looking for stuff to delete, and it is probably that someone reported it.

There was no link to anything, and it wasn't shared, it was just a pic he had saved from somewhere else and thought was funny. (Which is was, a bit....)

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BitOutOfPractice · 16/01/2018 16:28

They have bots which check posts for breach of copyright. They do it with music too

CottonEyeJosephine · 16/01/2018 16:29

Facebok have recently introduced some automated technology to search for/remove photos so it could be that as opposed to a report (report is more likely though). The automated tech is a bit clunky at the moment, I manage a few pages professionally and we’ve had some odd flagged posts in the last few weeks.

Iamagreyhoundhearmeroar · 16/01/2018 16:29

I can't understand posting naked pictures of your children no matter how blind you are to the dangers of doing so; surely it's so undignified for them? Confused
Some people have an astonishing lack of boundaries.

Pollaidh · 16/01/2018 16:29

Image recognition software? If it looks enough like a real penis, then it might well have been recognised as a penis by artificial intelligence.

Iamagreyhoundhearmeroar · 16/01/2018 16:33

I hardly think a potato could fool AI!

WrenNatsworthy · 16/01/2018 16:33

I've never posted a naked pic BUT if I wanted to share one (baby in a bathtub etc) I'd share with one of my lists only. I have a small list of trusted family and friends.
I'd be well pissed off if someone reported me without telling me why!

RaspberryIce · 16/01/2018 16:37

I reported someone being racist towards Muslims but facebook were fine with it and happy to keep it on the site. Hmm

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user1491678180 · 16/01/2018 16:38

Maybe it did have a 'bot' that alerted FB to a copyright breach. But my brother still wonders if he was reported. And as I said, the warning was that it was 'offensive content' and yet it was on lad bible and remained on it!

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Oldraver · 16/01/2018 16:46

@JellyBean85 I cant imagine anyone being so spiteful to anonymously report a friends picture. However they try to justify it.

Most pictures of naked children are sweet and innocent

As others have said I assume it's some kind of recognition software

SimonBridges · 16/01/2018 16:46

It wouldn't have been an actual person who would have been looking fir stuff, it will have been an automatic system that would have recognised it as a penis and therefore assumed it was.

Because I just don't get how the powers-that-be/admin at facebook would even have seen it. His facebook is set to private, and only his 125 friends can see what he posts.

Do you honestly think that having your FB set to private means that FB can't read it? They have systems that read everything you write and make inferences from that.
If they notice that you tend to be rather depressed every 28 days through your posts then they will advertise gambling or sanitary products to you.
Everything you post is monitored and logged, assumptions are made about you.
A couple of example to back that up:
A few years ago they carried advertising for a film called Straight Outta Compton. The film was advertised differently to black people that white people. And how do they know? I certainly didn't fill in a race section on my personal details. They profiled your posts. They looked at the things you liked and the language you used and then decided what race you were: www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/22/facebooks-ethnic-affinity-advertising-concerns-racial-profiling

They did much the same thing with the Trump campaign. If they thought you were Catholic by the posts that you like and the things that you say then they promoted a post saying that the Pope was backing Trump.

Having your Facebook set to private only changes what everyone else sees. Facebook themselves see all.
Remember, when you use FB you are the product being sold.
You are a box of cornflakes, and like a box of cornflakes you don't get to see that happens in the rest of the supermarket.

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user1491678180 · 16/01/2018 16:52

Yeah it possibly is recognition software. Hopefully it is, as it would be sad if he was being reported by people he regards as friends.

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Oldraver · 16/01/2018 16:54

And personally I wouldn't publish photos of my DC's naked

Jellybean85 · 16/01/2018 17:00

@Oldraver of course it wasn't spiteful what an odd assumption?
It wasn't a baby, tbh toddler is a stretch really, and of course it was posted innocently!! I'm certain that 99.9% that most people would have viewed it as beautiful and innocent, sadly some would not. I see it daily. I'm aware though that my job skews my perspective of risk around this sort of thing and fully understand my concern might not be 'normal'