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Facebook will not delete videos of violent death, abortion and self-harm, leaked guidelines show

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 21.5.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | censorship, Facebook
Summary | Facebook doesn't want to deleter posts about violent death, abortion, and self-harm; the group doesn't want to censor anyone. Leaked documents revealed some of Facebook's rules in terms of violent content. For instance, videos of abortion are allowed but nuditiy is not. Pictures of animal abuse can also be shared.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand holding a smartphone, charts showing FB's montly active users, laptop screen displaying Facebook's login page,
Image Tags | chart, computer/laptop, Facebook, hand(s), smartphone

Facebook's new feature translates your post into different languages depending on who's reading it

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 4.7.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, translation
Summary | Facebook's latest update allows you to translate posts in foreign languages. You can also select the option "post in multiple languages" if you want your post to be seen in different languages.
Image Description | Screenshot of a post in English, French, and Spanish, photograph of a hand holding a smartphone, photograph of a smartphone screen displaying the Facebook app
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), smartphone

Facebook must show it can follow its own rules on child safety

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 7.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, censorship, Facebook
Summary | Facebook is struggling to comply to its own rules which prohibit all nudity from the platform. Their artificial intelligence software designed to take down all images of nudity works unreliably. Although Facebook is one of the safest spaces online, there are still problems.
Image Description | Reuters image of a lot of Facebook logos through a magnifying glass.
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), logo

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