The dangerous result when looking for "girls" on Facebook – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

Regional users have highlighted a new problem in the Facebook algorithm, which allows to obtain very different results by searching for the word "children" and "girls".

Publications in social networks report the ominous way in which the algorithm orders the search request, drawing lessons from the critical mbad of users looking for a certain type of content.

The result is as follows:

To understand this, you need to know how the search algorithms on the Internet work. It's a set of instructions that lets you find a result on the web. This algorithm prioritizes the most requested results and proposes predefined solutions for searches starting with certain terms. In other words, the more people look for 15-year-old naked girls, the search engine will offer this default result.

Here are two ways to see it, but the same result. It is clear that Facebook must make a necessary adjustment to these criteria, so that it does not produce a result that is certainly requested in the network. The other, and the priority, is to stop looking for this content. Unlike a user generated history, which is modeled based on its search habits, this result on Facebook is not personal. You can see it in all accounts, whether you're looking for content or not. And that is, of course, a shame.

Unfortunately, the problem extends in other words:

The search parameters are created by the request. This means that there is a large mbad of users on Facebook and other networks that are looking for this content, and the danger is that not only are they standardized, but the results are visible to all. It's not just the responsibility of a network that we have to give up for inefficient content management, but we must learn to denounce this type of practice digitally.

In the face of criticism, Facebook has decided to eliminate these predetermined results, at least in the case of girls. A quick search shows that the bar appears without any search suggestions.