Facebook survey asks if men grooming 14 year old girls ‘should be allowed’

Do you think that requests from adult men for sexual pictures of 14 year old girls on Facebook should be allowed? That’s what the social network wants to know from its users in what could be the creepiest survey ever placed on the site.

According to a Twitter thread by The Guardian’s digital editor Jonathan Haynes, Facebook decided to place this particular survey on his news feed.

“So this popped up on Facebook,” he tweeted, attaching a screenshot.

“In thinking about an ideal world where you could set Facebooks’ [sic] policies, how would you handle the following,” Facebook prefaces the survey, and then provides users with four options.

So this popped up on Facebook pic.twitter.com/fL2QKgyr9x

— Jonathan Haynes (@JonathanHaynes) March 4, 2018

And yes, “making it secret” is seemingly the best choice of the four provided. The others include “this content should be allowed”, “I have no preference on this topic” and the only correct answer of “this content should not be allowed”.

The company’s response didn’t inspire much confidence either.

“We sometimes ask for feedback from people about our community standards and the types of content they would find most concerning on Facebook,” the company told Business Insider. “We understand this survey refers to offensive content that is already prohibited on Facebook and that we have no intention of allowing so have stopped the survey.”

Judging by this particular response, the social network isn’t about to become a safe haven for long distance chats with granny and sex offenders, but nauseating surveys like this doesn’t give the impression to Facebook’s tw0-billion users that its as safe as it purports to be.

H/T: Jonathan Haynes, Business Insider

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