{"id":3243,"date":"2021-10-13T19:36:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T17:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/13\/facebook-rule-protects-journalists-and-activists-as-involuntary-public-figures\/"},"modified":"2021-10-13T19:36:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T17:36:23","slug":"facebook-rule-protects-journalists-and-activists-as-involuntary-public-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/13\/facebook-rule-protects-journalists-and-activists-as-involuntary-public-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook rule protects journalists and activists as \u2018involuntary\u2019 public figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company, under wide-ranging scrutiny for harms linked to its platforms, increased protections against harassment and bullying<\/p>\n<p>Facebook will count activists and journalists as \u201cinvoluntary\u201d public figures and so increase protections against harassment and bullying targeted at these groups, its global safety chief said in an interview this week.<\/p>\n<p>The social media company, which allows more critical commentary of public figures than of private individuals, is changing its approach on the harassment of journalists and \u201chuman rights defenders\u201d, who it says are in the public eye due to their work rather than their public personas.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/13\/facebook-involuntary-public-figures-journalists-harassment-bullying\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7b76b9214a68d32ed3c218275ad127db95f1f4cc\/0_91_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=722f263a33f0e36ee43a9c2f4328d704\" title=\"Facebook rule protects journalists and activists as \u2018involuntary\u2019 public figures\" \/>The company, under wide-ranging scrutiny for harms linked to its platforms, increased protections against harassment and bullying<br \/>\nFacebook will count activists and journalists as \u201cinvoluntary\u201d public figures and so increase protections against harassment and bullying targeted at these groups, its global safety chief said in an interview this week.<br \/>\nThe social media company, which allows more critical commentary of public figures than of private individuals, is changing its approach on the harassment of journalists and \u201chuman rights defenders\u201d, who it says are in the public eye due to their work rather than their public personas. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company, under wide-ranging scrutiny for harms linked to its platforms, increased protections against harassment and bullying Facebook will count activists and journalists as \u201cinvoluntary\u201d public figures and so increase protections against harassment and bullying targeted at these groups, its global safety chief said in an interview this week. The social media company, which allows &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/13\/facebook-rule-protects-journalists-and-activists-as-involuntary-public-figures\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook rule protects journalists and activists as \u2018involuntary\u2019 public figures<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}