Facebook Gives Members a Tool to Tackle Offensive Content
The social network Facebook, which reached 350m users worldwide last year, has launched a new tool which allows members to monitor and act on offensive content. This follows as a solution to the fact that Facebook itself doesn't have the resources in-house to manage the policing of offensive content.
The tool, called The Facebook Community Council, is currently in a testing stage. When rolled out, users will have a new level of control to manage content written about them.
A spokeswoman for Facebook said, "The Facebook Community Council is a way for users to tell us whether reported content violates our policies. We've found that people aren't shy about reporting content they come across that looks suspicious and this is just another way of leveraging the Facebook community to help maintain the site's trusted environment. It's still in an experimental stage and we're currently testing the application with only a very small number of users."
