Facebook to introduce stricter Facebook Live rules after Christchurch attack

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Facebook is going to introduce stricter rules for Facebook Live. With this, the company wants to better prevent video images such as the attack in Christchurch New Zealand being made and shared. Among other things, the company wants to limit access to the service.

The social network agrees with the criticism that Facebook should have done more to prevent the images from spreading. That writes top woman Sheryl Sandberg in a letter to the New Zealand Herald newspaper, which published the letter. The first measure is to restrict access to the service. Sandberg does not write that anything concrete has already been agreed about this. She does say that the company is “investigating” whether restrictions can be imposed on users who, for example, have broken the platform’s Community Standard rules.

The other measure is to invest in research to develop better technology. This technology should be able to quickly recognize edited images. According to Facebook, the images could be shared because they were edited by third parties. This made it harder for the network’s systems to recognize and block the images. Facebook has identified more than 900 different videos that showed the Facebook Live images. That’s why Facebook wants to invest in technology that can recognize these edited images to prevent sharing.

Facebook also states that it has made ‘changes’ to the ‘review process’. With this, Sandberg says that the company can respond more quickly to violent images, such as that of the attack. The letter does not state what changes the company has made.

Finally, the company says it has banned several Australian and New Zealand ‘hate groups’ from the platform. It will also support aid organizations in New Zealand.

The March 15 attack killed 50 people. The shooter himself made images of the attack that he shared via Facebook Live. Facebook, among others, was criticized after the attack for the slow action of the platform. For example, a US Congressman from the Democratic Party urged tech companies to remove terrorist content from their platforms more quickly.

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