Facebook Says New Update Will Target Specific Groups and Individuals
A new article on Search Engine Journal reports that a new global Facebook update intends to target individuals and groups that break official community standards and impose limits on their reach as well as enabling their removal.
Facebook is taking new action to inhibit the spread of harmful content. The changes will roll out everywhere during the next few months.
What's the difference between misinformation and disinformation?
Targeting Group Recommendations
Facebook is limiting the spread of hate speech by no longer recommending groups guilty of that:
Global Rollout of Restrictions on Civic, Political and New Groups
Facebook announced in January it would permanently stop recommending civic and political groups to members in the United States:
New Facebook Restrictions on Groups
Facebook is targeting groups that spread hate and misinformation with new tactics that seeks to stunt their popularity. Among those measures are:
New Facebook Restrictions on Individuals
Facebook is instituting a tiered level of restrictions against individuals who post harmful or misleading content:
Facebook is taking new action to inhibit the spread of harmful content. The changes will roll out everywhere during the next few months.
What's the difference between misinformation and disinformation?
| "Misinformation is false or inaccurate information that is communicated regardless of an intention to deceive. Disinformation is false or misleading information that is spread deliberately to deceive. This is a subset of misinformation." |
Facebook is limiting the spread of hate speech by no longer recommending groups guilty of that:
| "That's why we've taken action to curb the spread of harmful content, like hate speech and misinformation, and made it harder for certain groups to operate or be discovered, whether they're Public or Private. When a group repeatedly breaks our rules, we take it down entirely." |
Facebook announced in January it would permanently stop recommending civic and political groups to members in the United States:
| "...we recently removed civic and political groups, as well as newly created groups, from recommendations in the US. While people can still invite friends to these groups or search for them, we have now started to expand these restrictions globally." |
Facebook is targeting groups that spread hate and misinformation with new tactics that seeks to stunt their popularity. Among those measures are:
- Demote groups that violate rules within the recommendation system
- Warn users of a pattern of Community Standards violations when attempting to join problematic groups
- Limit group invite notifications of problematic groups
- Demote group content in member news feeds
New Facebook Restrictions on Individuals
Facebook is instituting a tiered level of restrictions against individuals who post harmful or misleading content:
| "When someone has repeated violations in groups, we will block them from being able to post or comment for a period of time in any group. They also won't be able to invite others to any groups, and won't be able to create new groups. These measures are intended to help slow down the reach of those looking to use our platform for harmful purposes." |
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