US: Social media giant Facebook has announced it would ban a “wider category of hateful content” in ads as it ramps up efforts to curb hate speech.
Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook also would add tags to posts that are “newsworthy” but violate platform rules — following the lead of Twitter, which has used such labels on tweets from President Donald Trump.
Under the new policy which mirrors that of Twitter, Zuckerberg said, “We will soon start labeling some of the content we leave up because it is deemed newsworthy, so people can know when this is the case.”
He said users will be allowed to share the content “but we’ll add a prompt to tell people that the content they´re sharing may violate our policies.”
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