Facebook Offers New Tools to Combat Revenge Porn

This week Facebook added new tools to help people combat revenge porn. This is where someone posts nude photos of users without their permission in an attempt to embarrass that person. Facebook has been in hot water and has been sued in the past by people who claim that the social giant should do more to prevent the unauthorized sharing of nude images.

Back in 2015 the social network stated openly that images shared in revenge were forbidden on the service and users can report those images for violating the terms of service for the social network. Starting on Wednesday, Facebook will take things a step further reports Business Insider.

While the social giant can’t stop nude images from being posted the first time, once a person finds a nude image of themselves on the network a new option for reporting the image is available. That option is to report the image as inappropriate because it is a “nude photo of me.”

Once the image is reported as such, photo matching software that will scour the network and block the repeated sharing of the image down the road. That same software will keep the image off the Facebook core network and will block it from Instagram and Messenger as well. As for the people sharing the revenge images, their accounts may be disabled according to Facebook.

Facebook says that it has a specially trained group of employees who will do a human review of each photo reported using the new system. To stop the repeated sharing of the nude photos, the images do have to be stored in a database at the social network, but Facebook says that the images are blurred and only a small number of workers will have access to the database.