Online hatred – Facebook is stepping up efforts to combat bullying

by time news

The criticized Internet giant Facebook is tightening its guidelines in the fight against online bullying.

Users who are particularly at risk, such as victims of violence or government critics, are to be protected from “mass bullying and intimidation” through coordinated action by other users, as Facebook explained this week. Such a coordinated approach should also be prevented if the content per se not Violate the Facebook guidelines.

The group also wants to improve the protection of well-known and opinionated users such as politicians, celebrities and artists. For example, Lady Gaga had been repeatedly attacked by some in recent years for her commitment to LGBTQ.

LGBTQ is the English abbreviation for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer.

Photoshop banned?

Content with “degrading or sexualized attacks” should also be deleted. This includes photos edited with Photoshop with a sexual message or disparaging remarks about the exterior.

The protection should also apply to those who did not become known willingly, such as human rights and LGBTQ activists or journalists, as Facebook emphasized. In such cases, bullying often affects women, non-whites and members of the LGBTQ community.

In the past, Facebook has repeatedly been accused of not taking sufficient action against the spread of hate messages and bullying on its platforms. Most recently, revelations by the whistleblower and former Facebook employee Frances Haugen caused a sensation.

Haugen accuses her former employer of putting its own profits above the safety of its users and the common good. Facebook has firmly denied the allegations.

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