{"id":929,"date":"2021-03-23T15:09:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T14:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/23\/facebook-guidelines-allow-for-users-to-call-for-death-of-public-figures\/"},"modified":"2021-03-23T15:09:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T14:09:17","slug":"facebook-guidelines-allow-for-users-to-call-for-death-of-public-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/23\/facebook-guidelines-allow-for-users-to-call-for-death-of-public-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook guidelines allow for users to call for death of public figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: public figures considered to be permissible targets for otherwise-banned abuse, leaked moderator guidelines show<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s bullying and harassment policy explicitly allows for \u201cpublic figures\u201d to be targeted in ways otherwise banned on the site, including \u201ccalls for [their] death\u201d, according to a tranche of internal moderator guidelines leaked to the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>Public figures are defined by Facebook to include people whose claim to fame may be simply a large social media following or infrequent coverage in local newspapers. They are considered to be permissible targets for certain types of abuse \u201cbecause we want to allow discussion, which often includes critical commentary of people who are featured in the news\u201d, Facebook explains to its moderators.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/mar\/23\/facebook-guidelines-allow-for-users-to-call-for-death-of-public-figures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9609ba0f02616855206ac2515e9e55950ccc0f61\/0_0_5000_3000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2a56d18c0055356336fee40aed585bac\" title=\"Facebook guidelines allow for users to call for death of public figures\" \/>Exclusive: public figures considered to be permissible targets for otherwise-banned abuse, leaked moderator guidelines show<br \/>\nFacebook\u2019s bullying and harassment policy explicitly allows for \u201cpublic figures\u201d to be targeted in ways otherwise banned on the site, including \u201ccalls for [their] death\u201d, according to a tranche of internal moderator guidelines leaked to the Guardian.<br \/>\nPublic figures are defined by Facebook to include people whose claim to fame may be simply a large social media following or infrequent coverage in local newspapers. They are considered to be permissible targets for certain types of abuse \u201cbecause we want to allow discussion, which often includes critical commentary of people who are featured in the news\u201d, Facebook explains to its moderators. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: public figures considered to be permissible targets for otherwise-banned abuse, leaked moderator guidelines show Facebook\u2019s bullying and harassment policy explicitly allows for \u201cpublic figures\u201d to be targeted in ways otherwise banned on the site, including \u201ccalls for [their] death\u201d, according to a tranche of internal moderator guidelines leaked to the Guardian. Public figures are &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/23\/facebook-guidelines-allow-for-users-to-call-for-death-of-public-figures\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook guidelines allow for users to call for death of public figures<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":930,"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\/929"}],"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=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}