The Deadly, Underground World of Dogfighting on Facebook

 

Despite the prohibition of dogfighting in the United States, this type of animal abuse is easily found on Facebook. In this investigative report, ACCO expert Nina Jackel and her team at Lady Freethinker tracked more than 50 Facebook Pages and Groups that posted dogfighting content. They found that the top 5 Groups alone had more than 160,000 followers clicking through more than 2,000 posts promoting dogfighting or trafficking dogs for fighting.

Using Facebook’s policies as guidelines, LTF reported 26 posts that were in violation of Facebook’s Community Standards. Facebook decided to remove only 6 posts and urged the investigators to block, unfriend or unfollow the remaining posts that they declined to remove even though these posts were clearly of animal abuse.

Download the report to learn more about this animal abuse investigation.

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Authors:
Nina Jackel (Lady Freethinker)