Update: Facebook finally took the page down after hundreds of people received messages back from FB telling them that the page did not violate the community standards. This is what it used to look like.

As turtle riders know by now, Facebook allows trolls to mass report us for bullshit over and over again, gets completely innocent posts taken down by algorithms, causing us to lose over 40 Facebook pages, one of which had 112,000 followers.

I stopped complaining about it a while ago because it’s just not productive. Conservatives love to whine about Facebook and tech censorship, but no one ever takes legal action or tries to get laws passed to declare platform access as a civil right.

Facebook claims that human beings review all reported posts and only removes the ones that violate their standards. As you can see from what they’ve removed on our pages, that’s clearly bullshit. But the fact that Facebook makes editorial decisions about what goes up and what comes down, makes them a publisher. The Communications Decency Act of 1997, Section 230 says that platforms aren’t liable for what people post on places like Facebook. But when they CHOOSE to keep something up, they’re acting as a publisher instead of a platform.

I only bring this up because last night a cop alerted me to a Facebook page that’s been up for at least a few weeks, which features some pretty nasty kiddie porn. I’m not gonna post the graphic images, but it’s still up when I wrote this blog. It should be noted that there are pictures of naked boys, including two boys who appear to be having sex.

The comments are filled with comments from pedophiles who get off on this, most of who are using fake names or are foreign.

Henry Wagner Sr. stands out though.

This mother fucker actually uses his real name.

His friends list is filled with real people, including several family members, but it’s also filled with accounts showing half naked boys.

And he likes TONS of pages just like that.

This guy clearly gets off on little boys, and God knows how many victims he’s had over the years.

I reported the page yesterday (and recorded myself reporting specific pictures with naked kids for evidence, but I’m not posting it here), but according to the human being at Facebook who manually reviewed it, the pictures of kiddie porn do NOT violate Facebook’s standards.

I had the cop I spoke with try it too. Same results.

I searched for the page on Facebook and saw lots of other people got the same thing.

Why is Facebook given immunity from liability for crimes like this even though their employees are allowing this to stay up? According to Facebook executive Monika Bickert they hired employees specifically to stop shit like this from happening:

In recent months, Facebook has said multiple times it would be hiring 20,000 safety and security employees during the course of this year. As of July 24, the company confirmed it had hired 15,000 of the 20,000 employees it plans to recruit.

The content review teams include a combination of full-time employees, contractors and partner-companies located around the world, along with 27 third-party fact-checking partnerships in 17 countries. In addition to human reviews, Facebook uses AI and machine learning tech to identify harmful content.

“We’re also investing heavily in new technology to help deal with problematic content on Facebook more effectively. For example, we now use technology to assist in sending reports to reviewers with the right expertise, to cut out duplicate reports, and to help detect and remove terrorist propaganda and child sexual abuse images before they’ve even been reported,” wrote Facebook’s VP of global policy management, Monika Bickert, on July 17.

Facebook’s content review employees undergo pre-training, hands-on learning and ongoing coaching during their employment. The company says it also has four clinical psychologists on staff, spread across three regions, to design and evaluate resiliency programs for employees tasked with reviewing graphic and objectionable content.

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