{"id":41159,"date":"2021-10-13T23:57:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T06:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41159"},"modified":"2021-10-13T23:57:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T06:57:03","slug":"facebook-tightens-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41159","title":{"rendered":"Facebook tightens protections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook announced on Wednesday that it would enhance protections for journalists and activists, as the platform now deems them &#8220;involuntary&#8221; public figures.<\/p>\n<p>The social media platform is more lenient toward critical commentary of public figures compared to that of private people. But journalists and &#8220;human rights defenders&#8221; will be granted added protections, as Facebook says their public criticism is by virtue of their job and not a larger persona, according to initial reporting from Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The platform&#8217;s policies surrounding how public figures are treated include generally allowing users to call for the death of a public figure so long as they are not tagged in the post. Users are not permitted to call for the death of private users, a policy that will now extend to journalists, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s important that everyone on our apps feels safe to engage and connect with their communities,&#8221; Facebook Global Head of Safety Antigone Davis said in a blog post announcing the change to the platform&#8217;s bullying and harassment policies. We do not allow bullying and harassment on our platform, but when it does happen, we act.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook announced on Wednesday that it&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41160,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41159\/revisions\/41160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}