Facebook introduces changes to combat hate speech

Facebook has long had a big problem with hate speech in its comments. For this reason, they have been introducing measures for a while to try to tackle this problem, with results that are not too hopeful. Something that leads the social network to take new measures, with which they hope to finally be able to combat hate speech. One of them is that they are going to implement a rating system in the comments.

Facebook introduces changes to combat hate speech

In this way they will focus on showing those comments that are most relevant. Which should help show fewer hate speech comments.

New changes

Of course, Facebook confirms that those comments that go against the rules of the social network will be removed. Although in this case, the ratings will depend largely on the way in which other people react to such comments. What would be helpful to know if this comment has to be removed or not.

For now, this measure will be applied by default on pages that have a large number of followers. The rating option seems to be somewhat optional, for now. So it can be activated and deactivated in this case.

It remains to be seen if this new measure by the social network has the desired effect. Its implementation is partial for now. Although it is assumed that Facebook seeks to expand over time to the entire social network, if the results are positive.

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