Facebook, Faced with one of the worst crises in its history after the statements of Frances Haugen, she wants to end sexual harassment on her platform. For it, La red social de Mark Zuckerberg announced more protection especially journalists, activists and celebrities.
Facebook expanded its range of Prohibited “attacks” on public figures by including a variety of sexual or degrading images of their bodies.
Facebook’s chief security officer, Antigone Davis, who defended the work of the company In a hearing before legislators, he stressed that “attacks like these can turn the appearance of a public figure into a weapon.”
Facebook’s head of security, Antigone Davis. Photo: AP
The company had to make this decision and change the approach that it gives to all the negative content that is poured on Facebook about recognized personalities. This treatment of users towards public persons – singers, actors, politicians and human rights defenders – He had already raised a lot of dust for his discrimination in favor of anonymous people.
Until now this social network had a greater permissiveness when he insulted or attacked public persons. For example, you might even wish the death of a famous person if they weren’t labeled. However, this will no longer be the case. The social network has prohibited celebrities from being subjected to “degrading or sexualized attacks.”
Facebook anti-bullying policies
The sayings of Frances Haugen, the repentant Facebook employee, encouraged the platform to make changes. Antigone davis, Facebook’s Global Security Director, made the announcement on the official blog of the red social that the company changed his community policies and we will have a team that will monitor the content to be published on the platform.
«We do not allow harassment and harassment on our platform, but when it happens, we act ”, warned Facebook’s security officer.
In Davis’s words Posts that seriously sexualize a celebrity will be removed.; profiles, pages, groups or events whose objective is to sexualize a person; all the photomontages that represent in a derogatory or sexualized way the public figure and the content that tries to make fun of a person and their processes of basic bodily functions.
Frances Haugen testified before the United States Congress. Photo: Reuters
All those users who make another person famous without their consent will also be persecuted, something that could cause mental disorders being subject to unwanted media stress.
«We remove content that violates our policies and we disable people’s accounts they repeatedly violate our rules, ”he wrote.
All these measures will also apply when the content passes intended for women, racialized people or members of the LGTBI community.
“We make these changes because these types of attacks can make the image of a public figure become a weapon unnecessarily and many times it is not related to the work that these figures represent,” explained the directive.
The new regulations of the platform, according to Davis, have been taken together with a wide group of “defenders of freedom of expression, human rights experts, women’s security groups” as well as experts on Facebook.
With information from La Vanguardia.
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