Leaked Facebook Rules And Regulation Reveal Incompetence, Users Suffer Consequences

New leaks regarding Facebook’s internal rules and regulations are causing uproar since they reflect the company’s incompetence in handling sensitive topics. The rules are meant to deal with such issues as suicide, child abuse, violence, and animal cruelty. Unfortunately, it would seem that the company simply doesn’t know what it’s doing.

The leaked secret rules and regulations were first reported by The Guardian, which reveals quite a few items that involve disturbing and offensive content. Everything from match-fixing to even cannibalism was covered in several training manuals, flowcharts, and spreadsheets that were only meant for employees.

Had these rules been in place prior to incidents that have been putting Facebook under a lot of pressure of by entire world governments, the social network’s standing wouldn’t have been damaged as severely by the leaked files. Unfortunately, the documents clearly indicate that the company’s executives are scrambling to address the myriad controversies that crop up on its platform on a regular basis while also trying to shield itself from controversy.

As Mashable put it, “Facebook is making it up as they go along and we’re the collateral damage,” which is a sentiment that more and more people are starting to share and reflects badly on the social network. The company’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg had actually talked about these challenges in the past and provided a hint to the platform’s handling of these disastrous eventualities.

During talks, Zuckerberg would constantly point out that Facebook was standing on the cutting edge of technology since its inception, tackling issues that didn’t have blueprints on how to handle. Matters like revenge porn, suicide on Live Stream, or even the role Fake News would play during the 2016 US presidential elections were virtually unheard of before Facebook became as big as it is now.

Perhaps the biggest challenge that Facebook is facing, however, is that one line that it is trying not to cross. It involves Freedom of Speech, which the company holds sacred. It’s what made Facebook a tech behemoth and what it is desperately trying to preserve while preventing such controversial issues from appearing on its platform.