The social media giant announced that it will soon 'start labeling some of the content' the platform does not remove because it is deemed newsworthy, such as speeches from politicians.
A sign with the Facebook "like" symbol is posted outside of Facebook headquarters on April 5, 2018, in Menlo Park, Calif.
Zuckerberg said the changes"come directly from feedback from the civil rights community and reflect months of work with our civil rights auditors." "Specifically, we're expanding our ads policy to prohibit claims that people from a specific race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, caste, sexual orientation, gender identity or immigration status are a threat to the physical safety, health or survival of others," Zuckerberg wrote.
"We'll allow people to share this content to condemn it, just like we do with other problematic content, because this is an important part of how we discuss what's acceptable in our society -- but we'll add a prompt to tell people that the content they're sharing may violate our policies," Zuckerberg said.
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