Facebook apologizes for autocomplete child abuse video suggestions

Today, Facebook issued an apology after users discovered that the platform’s search box was suggesting searches for child abuse videos and underaged girls performing sex acts.
On Thursday night, Twitter user @BennettJonah noticed that typing in “video of...” in the search bar would autocomplete to “video of sexuals” or “video of little girl giving oral.” The explicit autocomplete search terms have seemingly since been removed from Facebook, as observed