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A few weeks ago I was sitting in a conference room with my colleague Sarah

friar she covers Facebook and had something to show me. It was an impressive

collection of screenshots of drugs for sale on Facebook and Instagram.

So this is a typical example of an account.

He has these obvious images of drugs.

I think this looks like cocaine, this looks like pills.

There were hundreds of images. pain. This looks like plastic baggy.

There were hundreds of images showing piles of pills, bags of meth and cocaine, stacks of fentanyl patches.

In the photo caption or at the top of the profile page would be all the

information to buy the drugs and have them shipped to your house. An activist

named Eileen Carey had sent me these files. I'm constantly hearing about people's problems with Facebook and Instagram, and I think it's because I've been writing for so long about how bad they are with policing content. They hire thousands of people to review what we

post online but sometimes there are big terrifying gaps in enforcement.

Eileen had spotted a big one.

Eileen doesn't work for the police or the government or anything.

She came across the issue through her work in cyber security and crisis management

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