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Do your views on what is acceptable to show match Facebook’s? Composite: Alamy
Do your views on what is acceptable to show match Facebook’s? Composite: Alamy

Ignore or delete: could you be a Facebook moderator?

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Facebook’s internal guidelines tell moderators what is permissible and what crosses the line. To help them learn the rules, it sets them quizzes. We compiled some of the images it has told moderators to ignore or delete – and put together a quiz of our own. Take the test and see if you could make it as a Facebook moderator

  1. 1.Would you delete or ignore this picture?Picture 7
  2. 2.What about this?
  3. 3.Now what would you do about this one?
  4. 4.How would you deal with this image?
  5. 5.Would you ignore or delete this image?
  6. 6.How would you deal with this one?
  7. 7.Now what about this one?
  8. 8.And this one?
  9. 9.This one?
  10. 10.What about this one?
  11. 11.Would you ignore or delete this?
  12. 12.What would you do with this?
  13. 13.How would you decide here?
  14. 14.What about this?
  15. 15.How would you deal with this one?
  16. 16.And finally, would you ignore or delete this?

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