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posted by janrinok on Tuesday April 24 2018, @03:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the devil-in-the-detail dept.

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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @08:27PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @08:27PM (#671310)

    If we're talking about 1000 of them, it is probably OK. Filter out the commies and other dummies please.

    After we take in a million of them, and they have created Norwegian-speaking cities, and they are demanding Norwegian-language schools and ballots, and there are Norwegian radio/TV stations, and a major political party is pandering to them, my answer is NO WAY.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @12:34AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @12:34AM (#671441)

    Where will you be when the dementia kicks in?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @02:28AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @02:28AM (#671472)

      Sounds like Minnesota, possibly Nord Dukota, or Western North Dackota (eastern Montana). Full of Norwegians.