Facebook teams failed to meet company's rape abuse standards

Tech giant's head of safety tells conference that enforcement staff weren't meeting policy requirements about online threats

Enforcement teams working for Facebook have failed to meet the company's strict rules of zero tolerance towards rape threats online, its head of safety said on Monday.

Antigone Davis, global head of safety for the California-based tech giant, said in the last nine months her team had been examining whether the tools, resources and policies in place to tackle online abuse were effective.