Facebook advances harassment policy to protect public figures
- ByStartupStory | October 15, 2021
Facebook said Wednesday that the company will expand its policies against harassment as part of an effort to remove harmful content from its site.
Facebook’s statement comes after the company’s former data scientist, Frances Haugen, told Congress last week that the company had not done enough to meet its responsibility to stop the spread of harmful content on its site. and it often values its own benefits over the interests of its consumers.
Every day someone or the other is trolled on social media, especially public figures, which is not right. Despite all the efforts on the part of social media companies, online harassment is not decreasing, although Facebook is now going to take tough steps regarding harassment on its platform. Facebook’s new and expanded policy against harassment will block content that seeks to demean public figures, including celebrities and elected officials, in the public eye. This change will provide protection from persecution to dissidents, journalists and human rights activists around the world. In many countries, journalists and activists are harassed through social media to silence them.
The company, which is based out of Menlo Park, California, announced that it will ban all content through which some people collectively try to harass a person.
“We don’t allow bullying and harassment on our platform, but when it does, we take action,” Facebook’s global security chief Antigone Davis wrote in a blog post.
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