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> We are committed to removing content that encourages real-world harm, including (but not limited to) physical, financial, and emotional injury. (Emphasis min
by cryptoz 9y ago
> We are committed to removing content that encourages real-world harm, including (but not limited to) physical, financial, and emotional injury.
(Emphasis mine)
That's rich. Facebook is in the business of intentionally showing users emotionally distressful content on purpose in order to drive them into a depression. They do this on purpose, they tell us about it proudly, they are not shy. Facebook experiments on its users by taking content they now deem bad, and specifically increasing the amount users see it, so as to intentionally affect their mood and make then sad and depressed. Facebook is so proud of it too!
This guide is a bunch of corporate speak for PR. It means nothing to Facebook; it couldn't, they love breaking the rules they try to assign to others.
Edit: Also Facebook happily separates out the time you spend on Facebook from what they call the "real world". I'd argue that logging in to Facebook and seeing any content at all is likely to cause a person "real world harm" for all kinds of reasons. But Facebook would like you to think that only your friends can hurt you in the "real world", not Facebook itself. But they do hurt people. Every day. And that will be x1000 if they helped foreign powers elect a dictator in the USA.
- cabaalis 9y agoHumans are strange creatures. Most people I know on FB literally put their absolute best face forward on there. Pictures of doing things with their family, sharing good things that happen to them, etc. However the net effect is reducing the happiness of everyone. I am not sure that this is a problem Facebook can solve. https://hbr.org/2017/04/a-new-more-rigorous-study-confirms-the-more-you-use-facebook-the-worse-you-feel https://hbr.org/2017/04/a-new-more-rigorous-study-confirms-t...