Facebook allowed South Sudan family to auction off 16-year-old girl as child bride: report

The Hill ^ | 11/20/18 10:47 AM EST | EMILY BIRNBAUM

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Facebook allowed a family in South Sudan to auction off a 16-year-old girl as a child bride last month, according to multiple reports.

The tech giant, which prohibits human trafficking on its platform, did not delete a post requesting payment for marriage to the girl until she was already married, CNN reported. The post reportedly went up on Oct. 25 and was taken down two weeks later.

ADVERTISEMENT The girl, whose identity is not publicly known, was married on Nov. 3 and has now gone into hiding in South Sudan's capital, the information minister of the country's Eastern Lakes state said in a statement, according to Business Insider.

"Any form of human trafficking — whether posts, pages, ads or groups is not allowed on Facebook," a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement, CNN noted. "We removed the post and permanently disabled the account belonging to the person who posted this to Facebook."

"We're always improving the methods we use to identify content that breaks our policies, including doubling our safety and security team to more than 30,000 and investing in technology," the spokesperson added.

Children's rights organization Plan International found that the girl's father received 500 cows, 3 cars and $10,000 in exchange for his daughter. Five men, including some "high-ranking government officials," bid on the girl, according to the organization.

"That a girl could be sold for marriage on the world's biggest social networking site in this day and age is beyond belief," George Otim, the country director for Plan International South Sudan, said in a statement. "This barbaric use of technology is reminiscent of latter-day slave markets."

[lightman]

Ping

[Pearls Before Swine]

They have internet there!

[KC_Lion]

Facebook doesn’t care, as long as the money is legal tender right?

[Blood of Tyrants]

So you can sell a PERSON on FB, but not a gun?

[rawcatslyentist]

No problem, it’s sharia compliant.

[a fool in paradise]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_South_Sudan

>>In 2017 in South Sudan, 52% of girls are married off before the age of 18 yo. 9% are married before they turn 15.[1] South Sudan is the 5th highest nation in the world for child marriage.

celebrate diversity

[a fool in paradise]

The EUSSR won’t even let you criticize Mohammed for having sex with a “wife” under the age of 10. So how can anyone criticize the activities of his followers who emulate his behavior (perfect man, and all that)...

[gaijin]

Stole his business idea

Stole all the shares from his BEST friend

Secretly sold users’ data

Stated in a confidential email to a friend that people who trust him are "dumb-f*cks".

Married in the community proprety state of California, the very day AFTER he took Facebook public.

Requested nude photos of users to “protect them against the risk of revenge porn”.

Secretly tried to get hospitals to release vast stores of patient data “so I can help cure diseases”.

Initially pursued total rights ownership of images uploaded to FB; if you'd been photoed as a happy youth with, say, a can of Coors then later got really famous, Zuck could be paid by Coors for zero work and YOUR old photo in a new ad while you, the centerpiece of the ad, would get NOTHING. Struck down after lengthy legal battles.

De-platformed numerous Conservatives because he didn't agree with their views, couldn't define hate-speech when asked by Congress.

Secretly requested banks give him his users' financial data, including transactions, so “my users can check their balances on my site."

Digitally permitted his housing advertisers to filter out customers whose search histories were strongly associated with terms like "handicapped" , "mobility scooter" and "guidedog".

Admonished that people "build bridges instead of walls", all while building walls around his Palo Alto homes and around the huge Kauai Estate he bought and then threw the Hawaiians off of, an effort requiring 300 seperate lawsuits against local Hawaiian land claimants.

Established a "trustworthiness index" for ALL his facebook users while disclosing it to none of them.

Altered FB algorithms to flag content from conservative publications as spam.

Revered Augustus Caesar, leader of Rome who assured 200 years of peace via harsh rule, possibly arranging the execution of his own grandson. On a wedding anniversary trip to Rome, Zuck gushed so effusively over sculptures and monuments dedicated to Augustus that his wife joked that three people, not two, were on their trip.

For years, Zuck traditionally closed high-level Facebook executive meetings by shouting, "DOMINATION..!", perhaps half-jokingly.

Proposed installation in the homes of FB users special Facebook cameras that would follow and monitor users around as they went about their private lives inside their homes. But the cameras, Zuckerberg assured, would come with privacy settings which Facebook would, like, totally respect, or something.

Asked for user telephone numbers for 2 factor authentication but within weeks used that data for marketing purposes. If users chose to share their entire contact list, Facebook also shared that data with advertisers, even phone numbers of people who NEVER had a facebook account! After the Cambridge Analytica scandal FB pleged to reinvigorate user privacy but neither of these practices has stopped.

In the runup to the 2018 midterm elections, FB removed over 800 conservative political pages and accounts in a clamp down on what the social media company arbitrarily termed, “inauthentic behavior”. The ambitious political move affected 66 million FB users, most of them Conservative.

Permitted the search term "white genocide" to be used as a targeting criterion to aim advertising for products at 170,000 users who interacted with that subject.

When at their SF HQ in 2016 FB employees replaced a mural slogal, "Black Lives Matter" with the words, "All Lives Matter", Zuck retured the slogan to its original and reprimanded the employees as "malicious and disrespectful".

[ealgeone]

This is part of the diversity and inclusiveness supported by the Left.

[DoughtyOne]

Aww that Facebook, isn't it just the most heartwarming place on planet Earth?

Well, at least we know one thing, nobody will fry for this. Hell, they chop the unborn up, selling parts to the highest bidder, and not a finger is lifted against them.

And in the deal, we pay for it through Planned Parentlesshood. eugenicside

[Stormdog]

When Allah made Sudan, he laughed.

Sudanese Proverb

[SunkenCiv]

I once worked with a early-20s recent college grad who was a vegan. She had spent time in Louisiana (vacation of some sort) and talked about how good the shellfish was. What happened to her veganism? Well, she replied that it's culturally appropriate to eat that stuff there. No standards on the left.

[Crucial]

So essentially you can sell slaves on Facebook?

[upchuck]

Thanks for the ping lightman.

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[Crucial]

This literally makes me sick to my stomach.

No matter what you think about the political problems between the races and its causes, sex slavery, slavery of any kind, should make you outraged beyond words.

This Sudanese girl was AUCTIONED OFF! The sick and twisted irony of the whole situation is that she is BLACK!

Where’s the “Reverends” Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton? They’re nowhere to be found. They’re silent and it’s deafening.

Slavery was outlawed nearly two centuries ago, purchased through the blood of brave soldiers.

This is just amazing. Modern Americans are amazingly dumb and numb.

[gigster]

* In best John Belushi/Jake Blues voice:” How much for the little girl?”

[Tunehead54]

FB Reference - Thanks!

[ConservativeMind]

That’s a great rundown of Facebook issues.

[teeman8r]

Shut them down as human traffickers