Although you may not want to add to the trauma of the moderation staff who spend their days monitoring the worst of Facebook, disturbing and inappropriate content gets posted to the social network each and every day, and the company’s automated software is woefully ill-equipped at finding it and even worse at properly evaluating it. So how do you as a user report a post, message, photo, or other item on Facebook that you believe should be pulled?

Well, the first place to go is Facebook’s own page discussing how to report a violation, rather vaguely titled “Report Something.” The page begins, “We’re sorry you’re having a bad experience on Facebook, and we want to help.” The guide has some broad suggestions on how to handle various…

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