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"Did you know that Facebook has a crack team of employees whose mission is to deal with offensive content and user complaints? Their ranks number in the hundreds. But while most websites have people on staff to deal with porn and violence, none of them have 350 million users to manage.  Facebook's also dealt with community controversies over its decisions, the breast-feeding decision being the most prominent.  Talk about a lack of resources.\nNow the world's largest social network found a way to deal with this shortage of manpower, though.  Facebook has begun testing a new feature called the Facebook Community Council.  According to a guest post on the Boing Boing blog by one of the council's members, its goal is to purge Facebook of nudity, drugs, violence, and spam.\nThe Facebook Community Council is actually a Facebook app and tool for evaluating content for various offenses.  Inside Facebook received a statement from Facebook, confirming that the company is looking to its community to help it better moderate and remove this type of unwanted content.\nThe app's tagging system allows council members to tag content with one of eight phrases: Spam, Acceptable, Not English, Skip, Nudity, Drugs, Attacking, and Violence.  If enough council members tag a piece of content with the same tag, action is taken, often a takedown.\nCrowd-sourcing this type of tedious task is rather smart - in general, an impartial crowd should be able to discern the different between false reports and true offensive content.  Facebook has used the same concept in its language translation project, something has has produced stellar results.\n[Source: Boing Boing via Inside Facebook, Image via Boing Boing]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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