Facebook Flooded With Porn and Violent Images

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Facebook is investigating reports of a massive wave of pornographic and violent images being posted to its website.

The content -- in the form of links, videos, and images -- began to appear Monday and includes doctored photographs of celebrities such as Justin Bieber in compromising situations, acts of violence and self-mutilation and even bestiality.

"We have recently experienced an increase in reports and we are investigating and addressing the issue," Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes told FoxNews.com. "We are always working to improve our systems to isolate and remove material that violates our terms. Protecting the people who use Facebook from spam and malicious content is a top priority for us."

The flood of explicit material appears to be linked to some sort of spam virus that propagates when unknowing users click on infected content, according to tech site ZDNet.

Facebook users took to Twitter to vent their rage, some even threatening to quit the social network once and for all.

?Facebook, I can handle old person porn but please no more beaten, bloody animals ... NOT COOL,? complained one.

?Seeing a dead dog on my Facebook newsfeed... Officially deactivating it,? another person tweeted.

?Our parents & grandparents the only ones still on facebook & suddenly a porn section pops up,? joked one user. "Awkward."

Graham Cluely, a senior technology consultant from Internet security firm Sophos, said it was not yet clear how the malicious content was being spread, but added that the website could face long term consequences.

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[SuperKid]

I first noticed this when I saw the one popup of this girl, thought it might be someone's not-so-nice ex. Anyhow its very immature and pathetic I reported all the pages I saw to Facebook

[Brandon H Supervisor]

this has been happening a lot longer than just monday

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

I would not use this for any reason. Many users get in all sort of trouble over what they post in FB.

[firey]

I logged on to facebook today to look for porn. I was severely disappointed by the lack of porn on my wall I wrote to facebook asking why other people could have porn and I couldn't.

Aside from the I wrote to bit, the rest is true.

[Detection]

Has someone finally discovered a way to bring FB to its knees ?

[Brandon H Supervisor]

Has someone finally discovered a way to bring FB to its knees ?

sadly, it'll take a lot more than this to bring down facebook

[Detection]

sadly, it'll take a lot more than this to bring down facebook

I agree, that truly is sad - i`ll get my thinking cap on ;)

[Charisma Veteran]

Has someone finally discovered a way to bring FB to its knees ?

By posting pictures of girls on their knees?

...sorry, couldn't resist.

I'll get my coat.

[Growled Member]

I logged on to facebook today to look for porn. I was severely disappointed by the lack of porn on my wall I wrote to facebook asking why other people could have porn and I couldn't.

Me too. Utterly disappointing.