Facebook Changes Their Community Standards Then Retracts After Outrage

By Scott Cunningham | Tech And Things | 14 Jul 2019


Facebook recently made radical changes to their community standards allowing for users to illegally call for incitements to violence and post death threats if the individual is considered dangerous by the media then redacted them. Given there are very different political biases amongst varying media outlets this gave way for very dangerous rhetoric. Not only was it still illegal to do so, but they were empowering people to break the law under fringe circumstances. We’ve seen the media smear so many people in a way that this policy would have only escalated dangerous situations into worse ones.

You can view Facebook’s community standards and check the recent changes for their violence section here:
https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/credible_violence/

Let me know what you think about this. Did Facebook do this out incompetence or malice? Leave your thoughts in the comments below

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