Facebook introduces new photo-matching tech to fight revenge porn

Revenge porn is one of the most insidious problems on social media and the internet at large — and Facebook is now taking new steps to fight it on one of the world's largest online platforms. 

The social network announced it's rolling out a new set of tools for users on Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram to prevent their most intimate images from being shared without their permission. The system won't immediately block problematic images from being posted — but once an image has been flagged and its subject identified, photo-matching tech will be used to make sure it won't be uploaded again.  Read more...