Facebook lifts ban on decapitation videos
Social network allows content with graphic violence if users ‘condemn’ them
Facebook has surreptitiously resumed allowing decapitation videos to be posted on its website, lifting a temporary ban it had placed earlier this year on content featuring graphic violence.
The world’s largest online social network, with 1.15 billion members, said after a report on the BBC on Monday, that gory photos and videos are permitted on its site so long as the content was posted in a manner intended for its users to “condemn” the acts rather than celebrate them.
“Facebook has long been a place where people turn to share their experiences, particularly when they’re connected to controversial events on the ground, such as human rights abuses, acts of terrorism and other violent events,” the company said in a statement.
“People share videos of these events on Facebook to condemn them. If they were being celebrated, or the actions in them encouraged, our approach would be different,” the statement said.
People share videos of these events on Facebook to condemn them. If they were being celebrated, or the actions in them encouraged, our approach would be different
Facebook said it was working on developing new ways to let users control what content they see, including advance warnings that particular images contain graphic violence.
