[News] - Facebook Updated Its Policy on Community Standards

The social network has updated its guidelines in order to clarify what content it bans on its website. Facebook explained that the policy itself wouldn’t change, just more clarity and examples would be provided.

Updated guidelines contain clarifications on many aspects, including nudity, hate speech, self-harm, bullying, harassment, criminal activity, graphic content and other. For instance, hate speech is defined as content that directly attacks people based on their race, ethnicity, sex, gender and other factors (the list is long enough). The problem is that people may share material that contains someone else’s hate speech, but they do it in order to raise awareness or educate others. In this case, they should clearly indicate their purpose not to get banned. (ReadMore)