Leaked Facebook docs reveal self-harm allowed by network’s moderators

rt.com

The supposed Facebook guidelines to moderators released by The Guardian say that the livestreams of acts of self-harm should not be removed because the social network "doesn't want to punish people in distress.”

Facebook has yet to respond to the alleged major leak published by the newspaper, dubbing the release ‘Facebook Files.’ It supposedly details how the social media giant moderates graphic content including violence, hate speech, terrorism, pornography and racism.

Amongst the hundreds of files reportedly seen by The Guardian are guidelines for dealing with self-harm that show how the company will allow users to livestream attempts to self harm because it “doesn’t want to censor or punish people in distress who are attempting suicide.”