Blushing because Facebook displays porn videos when searching for familiar keywords

(Dan Tri) - Many users in Vietnam had to "blush" when looking at search results on Facebook displaying pornographic content. What is confusing is that Facebook does not process this content at all.

Facebook in Vietnam displays pornographic content when users search for a familiar keyword (Photo: TT).

According to many Facebook users in Vietnam, when they search with the keyword "v*****" (a familiar and very popular keyword), instead of returning the desired results, this social networking platform displays extremely offensive pornographic video content.

These videos are displayed publicly without filters to blur or hide sensitive content.

This situation occurs when using Facebook on the computer web or on applications for Android and iOS platforms.

Notably, when testing the keyword "v*****" using a minor's Facebook account (who declared his age when creating the account), similar pornographic content was also displayed in the search results.

In addition to pornographic videos, articles appearing in Facebook search results also include links to lead users to "dark web" or even the possibility that the websites contain malicious code to steal user information.

According to Dan Tri's research, it is likely that this is not a Facebook error, but that subjects have taken advantage of this social networking platform's search algorithm to display pornographic content in the top positions when users search for popular keywords.

This situation seems to only happen to users in Vietnam, there are no reports of international users about the same situation.

However, what is confusing is that Facebook has a very strict content censorship policy, including content scanning and censorship tools using artificial intelligence, but pornographic videos can still exist for a long time on this social networking platform without being deleted.

This is not the first time Facebook in Vietnam has encountered similar problems. At the end of 2025, users reported that they only needed to enter a simple character into Facebook's search box to receive sensitive content.