{"id":1131,"date":"2016-10-24T17:41:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T17:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/facebook-expands-safety-center-to-50-languages-doubles-down-on-bullies-with-60-partners.html"},"modified":"2016-10-24T17:41:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T17:41:10","slug":"facebook-expands-safety-center-to-50-languages-doubles-down-on-bullies-with-60-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/facebook-expands-safety-center-to-50-languages-doubles-down-on-bullies-with-60-partners.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook expands Safety Center to 50 languages, doubles down on bullies with 60 partners"},"content":{"rendered":"


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As Facebook, the social network with 1.7 billion users, has\u00a0come under fire<\/a> for how it has handled its\u00a0editorial role as a\u00a0\u201cmedia\u201d company, it is also trying to launch more ways for people to control their experience on the platform. Today the company\u00a0unveiled a redesigned Safety Center<\/a>, now localised into 50 languages,\u00a0aimed at helping people set their privacy controls on Facebook\u2019s social networking platform; and it has updated its Bullying Prevention Hub that Facebook says now has some 60\u00a0partners involved to make its tools more accessible.<\/p>\n

Those partners include the likes of\u00a0Childnet International<\/a>,\u00a0Connect Safely<\/a>\u00a0(an online forum for\u00a0teens and their parents), and the\u00a0Family Safety Online Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The timing for this news is interesting for a couple\u00a0of reasons. It comes one week after Facebook announced<\/a> that it would be relaxing some of its content posting policies, essentially allowing for more graphic and potentially offensive posts on the platform, so long as they are deemed newsworthy.<\/p>\n

And, the new Safety Center\u00a0also comes\u00a0a week after news broke that another big social network, Twitter, lost out on not\u00a0one<\/a>\u00a0but\u00a0two<\/a>\u00a0acquisition deals because of its inability to control trolls and harassment on its platform.\u00a0Twitter, take note!<\/p>\n

The Safety Center has\u00a0been around since 2010<\/a>\u00a0and the Bullying Hub since 2013. Both have seen periodic updates<\/a>\u00a0since then, sometimes<\/a> in response\u00a0to specific questions<\/a> raised about online harassment. In the new versions, accessibility is the name of the game.<\/p>\n

For starters, Facebook is making its tools more widely available for a global audience \u2014 an acknowledgement of the issue going beyond Facebook\u2019s core audience of English speaking users.<\/p>\n

Antigone Davis, head of global safety at Facebook, writes<\/a>\u00a0that the new version is now mobile-friendly \u2014 which makes sense, considering that in many countries mobile is the primary platform used to access the social network \u2014 and is now available in 50 different languages; along with more video to demonstrate how to use the controls that Facebook has on there.<\/p>\n

The Bullying Prevention Hub, meanwhile, was first introduced in 2013 after Facebook developed the service with the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence<\/a>. The new version of the hub is not so much laden with more features, but its relaunch marks of how Facebook is working now with around 60 organizations to promote its existence and to use it more in cases where it is needed.<\/p>\n

The fact that Facebook has been making it possible for people to beam their status updates to specific groups \u2014 even helping them to suggest how to form these in a practical way \u2014 to me really speaks of some of the shortcomings of Twitter in this regard.\u00a0The question is whether it\u2019s too late for Twitter to revamp something like this now.<\/p>\n

Facebook is using the\u00a0update to reiterate five areas where users should be aware of how they can control their experience:<\/p>\n

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  1. It suggests that everyone should turn on two-step verification for Facebook so that every time you log in from a new device, it verifies your identity through a code on your phone.<\/li>\n
  2. It recommends\u00a0reporting (using the link on every post) every time a post is offensive or abusive (but it doesn\u2019t provide an update of how long or how those reports might be actioned).<\/li>\n
  3. Facebook also suggests to create customized audiences to target your content better, either to friends, or colleagues at work, or regional audiences, or whatever you choose.<\/li>\n
  4. \u00a0Similarly, controlling tagging and customizing your timeline, Facebook says, will help you control your experience.<\/li>\n
  5. Its privacy<\/a> and security<\/a> checkups take users through how to set all of the above up.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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