Facebook limits live broadcasts after the New Zealand massacre

After the Christchurch mbadacre in New Zealand, a move by Facebook was to prevent live streaming on the social network. Mark Zuckerberg's company announced today that it has updated its security policies and restrict users' ability to stream live content via Facebook Live after receiving the first penalty. He also announced an investment in research to detect the broadcast of banned videos.

What does it mean? That now, a user who issues inappropriate content, such as Brenton Tarrant in New Zealand or child badgraphy, to name just two examples will be sanctioned and will not be able to share live videos for a period of 30 days. It seems like little, but it's a first step.

Previously, the social network applied a policy that it removed inappropriate content after the first warning, without removing the authorization to broadcast live by Facebook Live before receiving a new sanction that could also result in the suspension of account.

Now, Facebook has tightened its content rules: after receiving a first penalty for inappropriate content, the user will no longer be able to stream live to Facebook Live for a period of 30 days. This affects the most sensitive policies, with contents of terrorism or child abuse.

The social network also plans to extend these restrictions to other actions after the first sanction, such as also removing the ability to publish advertisements.

Also confronted with the difficulty of removing from Facebook the different edited versions of the video of filming in Christchurch, the social network has invested in the development of new tools to warn this content, in the form of images, video and images. 39; audio.

This project, developed in collaboration with the universities of Cornell and Berkeley (USA), aims to distinguish people who share only the video from those who share it and manipulate it voluntarily to disseminate it by escaping the detection mechanisms of the platform. .