"I saw two this evening," one Facebook user wrote us last night, in an email that contained two screenshots from her Newsfeed. "The porn, to each their own ... but the dog and the blood just turned my stomach ... disgusting."
She's not alone. In the past two days, Facebook users have become increasingly vocal about graphic photos — pornography and mutilated corpses of humans and animals — showing up on Facebook Newsfeeds. Facebook users forwarded several screen shots to Technolog, which we forwarded to the social network, but won't publish at this time.
Facebook did not specifically address the images but they did provide this official statement:
Protecting the people who use Facebook from spam and malicious content is a top priority for us and we are always working to improve our systems to isolate and remove material that violates our terms. We have recently experienced an increase in reports and we are investigating and addressing the issue.
Facebook users are encouraged to report abusive content via the dropdown menu that appears next to each post on profile walls and Newsfeed.
It's not clear how widespread the gore and porn posts are throughout the site and whether they're being spread via a clickjacking scam. In our anecdotal survey, Technolog heard more from users who said they'd only been told about the images from friends who saw such posts, along with the few who who sent us screenshots.
Notably, this current Facebook scourge seems different from the CAP-LOCK warnings about "hidden" sex videos Facebook users are posting themselves as their Facebook statuses.
In that case, the screaming warnings claimed hackers would use a victim's name to post porn videos to the Facebook walls of the victim's Facebook friends. What's more, the warning alleges that these posts remain invisible to the victim. Several security agencies including Sophos say that they've found no evidence that hackers can are able to prevent you from seeing content they've posted using your name. This particular hoax first surfaced in September and it's possible the resurgence may've been caused by panic over this current alleged rash of nasty spam.
"I saw two this evening," one Facebook user wrote us last night, in an email that contained two screenshots from her Newsfeed. "The porn, to each their own ... but the dog and the blood just turned my stomach ... disgusting."
She's not alone. In the past two days, Facebook users have become increasingly vocal about graphic photos — pornography and mutilated corpses of humans and animals — showing up on Facebook Newsfeeds. Facebook users forwarded several screen shots to Technolog, which we forwarded to the social network, but won't publish at this time.
Facebook did not specifically address the images but they did provide this official statement:
Facebook users are encouraged to report abusive content via the dropdown menu that appears next to each post on profile walls and Newsfeed.
It's not clear how widespread the gore and porn posts are throughout the site and whether they're being spread via a clickjacking scam. In our anecdotal survey, Technolog heard more from users who said they'd only been told about the images from friends who saw such posts, along with the few who who sent us screenshots.
Notably, this current Facebook scourge seems different from the CAP-LOCK warnings about "hidden" sex videos Facebook users are posting themselves as their Facebook statuses.
In that case, the screaming warnings claimed hackers would use a victim's name to post porn videos to the Facebook walls of the victim's Facebook friends. What's more, the warning alleges that these posts remain invisible to the victim. Several security agencies including Sophos say that they've found no evidence that hackers can are able to prevent you from seeing content they've posted using your name. This particular hoax first surfaced in September and it's possible the resurgence may've been caused by panic over this current alleged rash of nasty spam.