Facebook exposed identities of moderators to suspected terrorists

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Facebook put the safety of its content moderators at risk after inadvertently exposing their personal details to suspected terrorist users of the social network, the Guardian has learned.

A bug in the software, discovered late last year, resulted in the personal profiles of content moderators automatically appearing as notifications in the activity log of the Facebook groups whose administrators were removed from the platform for breaching the terms of service.

Facebook moderators like him first suspected there was a problem when they started receiving friend requests from people affiliated with the terrorist organizations they were scrutinizing.

An urgent investigation by Facebook's security team established that personal profiles belonging to content moderators had been exposed.

Facebook then discovered that the personal Facebook profiles of its moderators had been automatically appearing in the activity logs of the groups they were shutting down.

In one exchange, before the Facebook investigation was complete, D'Souza sought to reassure the moderators that there was "a good chance" any suspected terrorists notified about their identity would fail to connect the dots.

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