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Facebook tightens policies to prevent suicide, self-harm
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IANS | 11 Sep, 2019
On World Suicide Prevention Day, Facebook is tightening its policies
around self-harm, suicide and eating disorder and has announced its plan
to hire a health and well-being expert to join its safety policy team.
"Earlier
this year, we began hosting regular consultations with experts from
around the world to discuss some of the more difficult topics associated
with suicide and self-injury. These include how we deal with suicide
notes, the risks of sad content online and newsworthy depiction of
suicide," Antigone Davis, Global Head of Safety, Facebook, wrote in a
blog post on Tuesday.
The social media giant has been working on
suicide prevention measures since a few years now and in 2017, it
introduced its artificial intelligence (AI)-based suicide prevention
tools.
"...We've made several changes to improve how we handle
this content. We tightened our policy around self-harm to no longer
allow graphic cutting images to avoid unintentionally promoting or
triggering self-harm, even when someone is seeking support or expressing
themselves to aid their recovery," Davis added.
Facebook-owned Instagram stared hiding self-harm images behind "sensitivity screens" this year.
The
photo-sharing platform also prevents self-harm content from appearing
in its "Explore" tab and it has taken steps to prohibit content that may
promote eating disorders.
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