How Did The Pornography Make It On To Facebook?

People on Facebook are still talking about the pornographic and violent images long after they've disappeared from news feeds.

By now you’ve probably seen at least one post or news about a rash of pornographic images that flooded Facebook’s news feeds, along with some violent photos as well. But how did content expressly prohibited by the site proliferate on the social network?

We asked Facebook to comment on the phenomenon, and soon after noticed that the site quietly pulled these images and the threads.

A spokesperson had thanked me for “flagging” these images (Is that what I did?) last night.

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