Facebook apologises for search suggestions of child abuse videos
by Alex Hern from on (#3JB5E)
Searches starting 'video of' returned autocomplete suggestions of sexual videos and child abuse content
Facebook has been forced to apologise after it spent hours suggesting bizarre, vulgar and upsetting searches to users on Thursday night.
The social network's search suggestions, which are supposed to automatically offer the most popular search terms to users, apparently broke around 4am in the UK, and started to suggest unpleasant results for those who typed in "video of".
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