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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Mercedes Bunz

How easy is it to report abuse on Facebook?

Facebook reporting abuse
Reporting a picture on Facebook

Recently, there was a big fuzz about the social network sites failing to protect children. Different newspapers, among them the Guardian, reported a "head of goverment body responsible for keeping children safe" has criticized social networking sites for not doing enough. But was that correct?

Facebook is giving its users numerous ways to report abuse, under every picture you find a report button for example. And so does MySpace. Both sides are quite strict about sensitive content. In fact, what the head of the goverment body Jim Gamble was criticising in his role of being the chief executive of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (Ceop) was not using Ceop's own tool.

So what do you think? Is Facebook not doing enough? Should the media have had a look on Facebook instead of just reading press releases?

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