Facebook Tightens Policies on Suicide, Self-Harm Content
Facebook tightened its self-harm policy to no longer allow graphic images of cutting, it said Tuesday, World Suicide Prevention Day. It made searching on Instagram for such content more difficult, and it won't be recommended in Explore. It's prohibiting content…
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that could promote eating disorders, and it will continue to send resources to people whose content promotes self-harm or eating disorders. The company is exploring ways to share public data from its platform about how people talk about suicide, starting with giving academic researchers access to a social monitoring tool. And it said it's adding guidelines from a youth mental health research organization, for when someone searches for suicide or self-injury content.