Sandberg Details Plans for Facebook Live Restrictions, Removal of New Zealand Hate Group Content
March 29 2019 - 4:36PM
Dow Jones News
By Josh Beckerman
Facebook Inc. (FB), which has been criticized after video of the
New Zealand mosque attack was shown live and widely shared, is
enhancing its rules for using Facebook Live and taking steps to
fight hate groups in New Zealand and Australia.
In a blog post Friday, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl
Sandberg said, "We are committed to reviewing what happened and
have been working closely with the New Zealand Police to support
their response."
Facebook is exploring restrictions on who can go Live based on
factors like prior Community Standard violations. It is also
working on improved technology to quickly identify when videos and
images are edited to avoid being blocked.
Facebook said this week that it would block content that praises
or represents white nationalism. On Friday, Ms. Sandberg said
Facebook is using existing artificial intelligence tools to
identify and remove "a range of hate groups in Australia and New
Zealand, including the Lads Society, the United Patriots Front, the
Antipodean Resistance, and National Front New Zealand."
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has called for
"meaningful change" to the country's social-media laws.
Ms. Sandberg said Friday that the company is ready to "further
review the role that online services play in these types of attacks
more widely" and to "work with the New Zealand Government on future
regulatory models for the online industry in areas like content
moderation, elections, privacy, and data portability."
Write to Josh Beckerman at josh.beckerman@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
March 29, 2019 17:21 ET (21:21 GMT)
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