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Facebook did nothing to assist in narrowing a search area.

What Facebook actually did was host images .. so that after the team narrowed a list down to under 100 people they could look through profiles by hand.

It may as well have been searching Flickr, Instagram, Etsy, etc. profiles by hand.

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Yes, and if Facebook didn't exist, presumably these images connecting the abuser to the victim wouldn't have been available anywhere for the investigators to find.

If Facebook didn’t exist, they would’ve found the photos on MySpace. Come on.

All Facebook likely did here that was any different than any other social media platform would have done, was gather Sandberg, Zuck and a cadre of snotty, sniveling engineers in a conference room and debate whether this was good engagement for the platform.

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