Facebook marks pictures of a child with Down syndrome offensive

In terms of size, social networking giant Facebook is bigger than big — over 2.7 billion comments are posted to the site each and every day. That's far more content than Facebook's 3,000 or so employees can moderate, so they largely rely on special filtering software to weed out offensive content. But that filtering process has landed Facebook in hot water after mother Diana Cornwell was forced to remove photos of her child with Down syndrome after they were flagged as offensive content. Read more...