Content moderation and algorithmic safeguards are meant to help protect the privacy of people in legally contentious cases. So what went wrong?
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Social media imploded and the BBC practically ate itself last week as the scandal over Huw Edwards allegedly paying for explicit images from an unnamed young person unspooled.
But what you knew, and when, depended largely on where you looked.
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