{"id":1811,"date":"2009-05-03T12:52:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T16:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2009-05-03T12:52:31","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T16:52:31","slug":"facebooks-police-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/05\/03\/facebooks-police-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook&#8217;s Police Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweek has an interesting piece this week, entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/195621\">Walking the Beat<\/a>, about Facebook&#8217;s 150 employees ranging from &#8220;porn cops&#8221; who review uploaded images to ensure they keep with the site&#8217;s rules, to site security personnel (who proactively probe for site vulnerabilities), to liaisons with the police, who handle 10-20 requests by police departments a day and, more intriguing, claim to end up being involved in almost &#8220;half the crimes that attract national media attention.&#8221; Their &#8220;undercover&#8221; division mingles in online blackhat and spammer communities to keep the site&#8217;s defenses up.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting takeaway from the article: 150 of the company&#8217;s 850 employees are involved in policing site content, meaning that the division accounts for nearly 20% of Facebook employees. Another interesting aspect for me is the bit about user reactions: their proactive policing has led to many protest groups, but they&#8217;re &#8220;not too worried: users may join a protest group, but the fact that they haven&#8217;t quit the site altogether shows how sticky Facebook can be.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweek has an interesting piece this week, entitled Walking the Beat, about Facebook&#8217;s 150 employees ranging from &#8220;porn cops&#8221; who review uploaded images to ensure they keep with the site&#8217;s rules, to site security personnel (who proactively probe for site &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/05\/03\/facebooks-police-force\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}