Facebook announced updates to its harassment policy on Wednesday to protect public figures, journalists, and activists from harmful content and attacks, according to a new statement from the social media giant.
She has accused Facebook of repeatedly putting profit before doing “what was good for the public,” including clamping down on hate speech.
Now Facebook has announced its new policy to better protect users concerned about bullying and harassment on the platform.
“We remove content that violates our policies and disable the accounts of people who repeatedly break our rules,” Davis added.
The announcement was coordinated with National Bullying and Awareness Day in the United States. The actions seek to offer additional protections to anyone who feels threatened on the platform, especially through the large-scale harassment sometimes experienced by leading influencers.
The statement focused on two areas of change. First, Facebook’s new policy will remove “coordinated efforts of mass harassment.” This change could include comments, direct messages, and other targeted attempts to harass users in a coordinated manner.
- Severe sexualizing content
- Profiles, pages, groups, or events dedicated to sexualizing the public figure
- Derogatory, sexualized photoshopped images and drawings
- Attacks through negative physical descriptions that are tagged to, mention, or posted on the public figure’s account
- Degrading content depicting individuals in the process of bodily functions
In addition to Facebook, the policy changes will include interactions on the Facebook-owned app Instagram.
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