Facebook has apologised for asking users if they think it’s OK for a male paedophile to request sexual pictures from a 14-year-old girl. The shocking question was asked in a survey sent to users about how the company should respond to certain behaviour.
This is the full question as it appeared in the survey:
There are a wide range of topics and behaviours that appear on Facebook. In thinking about an ideal world where you could set Facebook’s policies, how would you handle the following: a private message in which an adult man asks a 14-year-old girl for sexual pictures.
Participants could then correctly respond with “This content should not be allowed on Facebook, and no one should be able to see it” or choose three other very wrong options: “This content should be allowed on Facebook, and I would not mind seeing it,” “I have no preference on topic,” or “This content should be allowed on Facebook, and I would not mind seeing it.”
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A Facebook spokesperson admitted that the survey was a mistake. The company explained that such surveys are designed to get feedback from the community on how Facebook should set its policies.
