Facebook is 'exploring restrictions' on who can broadcast live

Following the terrorist attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand, Facebook is "exploring restrictions" for who can circulate live on the platform.

The social network's COO, Sheryl Sandberg, outlined in a recent blog postal service several steps the company had taken and planned to take to combat the use of its platform in sharing horrific videos like the one from this attack.

First and foremost, Sandberg wrote that Facebook would explore restrictions on who could utilise its live broadcasting features. Limits would be based on factors like prior Community Standards violations.

Additionally, Sandberg wrote that the company was investing in research to build improve technology to help identify edited reposts of videos.

In the case of the Christchurch video, Sandberg says people spread it by re-sharing information technology and editing it to arrive difficult for Facebook systems to block information technology.

"We have identified more than 900 unlike videos showing portions of those horrifying 17 minutes," Sandberg wrote.

Along with exploring options to restrict alive broadcasts, Sandberg wrote that Facebook would accept stronger steps to remove detest from its platforms, such every bit using existing bogus intelligence tools to identify and remove a range of hate groups in Commonwealth of australia and New Zealand.

Sandberg as well noted that earlier this calendar week, Facebook banned content that supports white nationalism and separatism.

However, many still question if Facebook and other social media platforms are doing enough to combat extremist content like this. Some countries, including Canada, are considering legislation to strength social media companies to block extremist content.

Source: Facebook Via: 9to5Mac