on facebook if you were to create a group that said the vaccine is filled with poison, you shouldn t take it that would get taken down very quickly. facebook does not allow that. so what are anti-vaxers doing to remain on the platform, they re changing the names of their groups to dance party or dinner party or swim party or things like that. s and once you re in the group y they replace the word vaccine with dance or beer or something. moderna gets changed to moana that sort of thing.de they are doing code word switches. d it s allowing them to stay on there, and there s no way that facebook s moderation bots can d catch this stuff. nothing is that advanced becauss they just change the topic and then they change the nouns in those topics to suit the vaccine. but doesn t facebook know which groups these are? i mean even though you change the name of the group it should be able to trace that s the same account with a new name, right? yeah, hypothetically, right? sometimes they bui
Instagram are not big famous people to regular parts of the planet, but they are big to people big in the national health community or already anti-vaccine to begin with, which is so really facebook s next step is to look at this on the after level as they d call it in terrorism, to look at it on the level of the people who keep pushing this stuff and not go hunting for just p words on their own platform. there s been movement among o some conservative politicos, well-known figures, republican lawmakers who have kind of changed their tune in terms of getting vaccinated. that includes fox news show host hannity who s walked back some of what he said. listen. i never told anyone to get a vaccine. i ve been very clear.
Coming up from what people want to see. profanity is something they have decided is fine because it s people speaking and they don t want to discourage user behavior. it comes down to the business model. right? this is a business that is incentivized to get users to create as much content as possible. if that is your goal, you will want to do the most reactive things after people report it. sometimes not even then. are facebook and instagram changing their marketing model and say platforms should be used by people over the age of 18. i m sure there is no school for someone to say, go f yourself and last i checked, facebook and instagram are encouraging people of all ages to use their platforms. they absolutely are. sometimes they have people younger than that, where they
Facebook simply say, let s dismantle facebook live until we figure it out? reporter: they knew this could be a problem that violent video could be a problem before they launched live and yet they decide live was going to be this next version of how people use facebook. we were talking about the problem of violent video on facebook live since before we were talking about the fake news problem, cambridge analytica, any of those issues has been with facebook for years. yet, they haven t gotten to the point that they can guarantee us they won t see this horrific video which you mentioned was taken down 1.5 million times. that means maybe there are some that facebook didn t get or there are edited versions of it. we just don t know because there isn t a lot of transparency around it? why not? sarah, this is an issue of will, not ability. i give bloomberg as an example.
I used to work there. so do you. the bloomberg system, it s a technology company, if i go to send a message with an obscene word in it. it s unable to send, i get a compliance alert. the company says, if you keep behaving like this you can be off our platform. facebook, instagram, that i have the ability to do it. why wouldn t they? . reporter: so on instagram, i m glad you asked about that. you can block certain kind of comments and key words in comments, but a lot of people don t know you can do that. it should be up to the user to decide. why should i have to do that? why wouldn t facebook and instagram create an tournament? it s clear people don t want to see fu in a refons, why can t they create those safety guards? they don t want to do anything that prevents content