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, a time to recognize the people impacted by suicide and suicidal thoughts , as well as the importance of working together to raise awareness and take preventive steps . A new collaboration aims to fulfill the latter, withto create Thrive , a signal-sharing program. Thrive should allow participating companies to send signals about content focused on self-harm or suicide to each other, thus locating and investigating the same or similar posts more easily.
Thrive will initially work through companies providing hashes . Each one will only provide information about the image or video and shouldn't include specific information about users or the account.Meta announced the news in a statement and shared it's providing Thrive's technical infrastructure. The company, which has beenin preventing harm on its site, also acknowledged the need for cross-platform collaboration.
Thrive's director, Dr. Dan Reidenberg, will oversee the program, stating, "The integration of signal sharing, coupled with cross-industry collaboration and moderated by an independent and neutral intermediary, represents a major breakthrough in industry collaboration and public protection on the global, public health crisis of suicide and ultimately save lives."
In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-8255 or you can simply dial 988. Crisis Text Line can be reached by texting HOME to 741741 , 686868 , or 85258 . Wikipedia maintains
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