Facebook will increase its guidelines on harassment to cast off more dangerous content material, the enterprise said on Wednesday in its trendy exchange following congressional testimony of whistleblower

1. Facebook expands its
harassment policy to
protect public figures

2. Facebook will make bigger its policies on
harassment to dispose of more harmful
content material, the organization stated
on Wednesday in its state-of-the-art
exchange following congressional
testimony from a whistleblower who faulted
the social media giant for not doing enough
to forestall dangerous content.
Under the brand new, greater distinct
harassment coverage, Facebook will bar
content material that degrades or
sexualises public figures, together with
celebrities, elected officers and others
inside the public eye. Existing rules already
prohibit similar content about private
individuals.
Another trade will upload more protections
from harassment to government dissidents,
journalists and human rights activists
around the sector. In many countries,

3. social media harassment has been utilized
in efforts to silence newshounds and
activists.
Lastly, the enterprise based totally in Menlo
Park, California, announced it will ban all
coordinated harassment, wherein a set of
individuals work collectively to bully any
other user. That alternate will observe to all
users.
We do now not permit bullying and
harassment on our platform, however while
it does occur, we act, Antigone Davis,
Facebook's head of worldwide protection,
wrote in a blog post.
The modifications come amid mounting
criticism of the organization's managing of
hate speech, misinformation and poor
content material. Concerns about
harassment range from teenagers bullying

4. every different on Instagram to the
coordinated abuse of newshounds and
dissidents by means of companies linked
to authoritarian governments.
Last week, former Facebook records
scientist Frances Haugen told Congress
that the agency has carried out too little to
cope with its responsibility for spreading
harmful content material, and too often
chooses earnings over its customers' fine
hobbies.
Days later, the employer introduced that it
would introduce new features designed to
shield children, such as one encouraging
them to take a destroy from the platform.
Celebrities, even people who profit
handsomely off Facebook and Instagram,
haven't been shy about criticizing the
organisation.

5. In an interview earlier this 12 months with
The Associated Press, singer and actress
Selena Gomez stated she started out
pressing tech agencies like Facebook to
easy up their websites in 2017 after a 12-
yr-old commented on one among Gomez's
Instagram posts: Go kill yourself.
That turned into my tipping point, she
stated. I could not manage what I turned
into seeing.