Facebook under scanner for allowing dog fighting content on platform

Facebook has come under the scanner for allegedly allowing content related to dog fighting on its platform. Dog fighting is illegal in a number of nations around the world.

Animal rights organisation, Lady Freethinker, conducted an investigation and found that dog fighters are promoting their trade on Facebook through posts that may include dogs mauling each other, chained up in factory-like training facilities, or displaying the scars of fighting.

The organisation further found more than 2,000 posts promoting dog fighting or trafficking animals used for fighting, over 150 pages, groups and profiles actively promoting or engaged in the sale of animals for fighting, and more than 160,563 followers of the top five groups and pages.