Last week after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced its new organ donor program, the darker side of the social media page has now revealed itself.
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With 901 million monthly users as of March 2012, Facebook has become a place for pedophiles trading graphic images of children.
According to WND.com, disturbing amounts of child pornography are being shared by predators on the social network.
Uncovered by reporter Chelsea Schilling, graphic images of children, including infants and toddlers, were seen on a user page called ‘Kidsex Young,’ which shows a timeline of approved friend requests between users allegedly trading photos and videos of abuse.
On the page, one user asks others requesting a trade for videos, while another posts a clip of a naked man fondling a baby.
Some censored screenshots published on the website were taken from entire albums of children forced into acts by pedophiles.
Others too graphic to publish included photographs of children forced to have sex with each other, being raped by adults, and forced to expose their genitals to the camera.
All illegal photographs and illicit Facebook pages were reported to the FBI.
Last May, Microsoft’s inclusion of a PhotoDNA program helped cull through images and data quickly in a bid to police the website and rid it of abuse.
According to Facebook, a program was used to search for several thousand illegal images among the 200 million uploaded each day, focusing on children under 12 as part of an initiative to battle ‘the worst of the worst.’
The program is able to search for some of the thousands of photographs collected by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), which helps to identify and aide victims and cooperates with authorities on investigations into their origins.
However, according to WND, numerous amounts of exploitative content remains on the site as groups available to Facebook users uncovered by the network included:
Kidsex Young, Preteen Lesbians, 10-17 Teen Bisexual, PTHC (or preteen hard-core pornography), 12 to 13 Boy Sex, Young Gay Pics and Movie Trade, Gangbanging, Teen Sex, Love Little Kids, Incest Forever, Menfor Babygirls, Sex Little Girls and Nude Teens.
Facebook and other social media sites are a doubled edge sword, as they are being used for good and bad.
