Facebook reveals 25 pages of takedown rules for hate speech and more
Facebook has never before made public the guidelines its moderators use to decide whether to remove violence, spam, harassment, self-harm, terrorism, intellectual property theft, and hate speech from social network until now. The company hoped to avoid making it easy to game these rules, but that worry has been overridden by the public's constant calls for clarity and protests about its decisions. Today Facebook published 25 pages of detailed criteria and examples for what is and isn't allowed.
Facebook is effectively shifting where it will be criticized to the underlying policy instead of individual incidents of enforcement mistakes like when it took down posts of the newsworthy "Napalm Girl" historical photo because it contains child nudity before eventually restoring them. Some groups will surely find points to take issue with, but Facebook has made some significant improvements. Most notably, it no longer disqualifies minorities from shielding from hate speech because an unprotected characteristic like "children" is appended to a protected characteristic like "black".
Nothing is technically changing about Facebook's policies. But previously, only leaks like a copy of an internal rulebook attained by the Guardian had given the outside world a look at when Facebook actually enforces those policies. These rules will be translated into over 40 languages for the public. Facebook currently has 7500 content reviewers, up 40% from a year ago.
Also at MarketWatch.
Related:
Facebook Reports BBC for Reporting Child Porn Images Found on Facebook
Facebook Blocks Users from Sharing World Socialist Web Site Promotional Video
Facebook-Owned Instagram Removes Opioid-Related Posts
(Score: 3, Interesting) by edIII on Tuesday April 24 2018, @07:23PM
It's funny some people think I'm Left, but my immigration position is actually quite radical for everyone.
It makes no sense at all to be letting people in. Not when we're about to break apart in civil war because the Elites have sucked out >90% of the wealth and set us against each other. There's no more money or opportunity in the US for anyone coming here, so just shut it down entirely.
Now, if we killed all the Elites and politicians... we could get this country back on track and it wouldn't matter to us that we have immigration of people needing help, much less people capable of making great contributions from the moment they touch foot here (allegedly the Norwegians).
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.