One of the more drastic changes is the fact that Facebook is more proactive against hateful rhetoric, which seems to be today's social media trend. Unfortunately it often backfires as trigger happy moderators ban or even remove valid people or pages that have been targeted by mobs.
All in all, Facebook would probably want to backpedal control a bit, and a new feature might bring more control to users.
According to Jane Wong, Facebook testing a new feature which allows users to censor specific words, sentences or even emojis from their comments.
Comments would still be there, but only show to the commenter and his or her friends.
This would also allow pages, such as brands that are worried about their image, to moderate what kind of dirt will not show on their posts' comments.
At this point, however, the feature is just one of a million A/B tests Facebook runs on small numbers of people, so don't hold your breath yet.
Facebook is working on letting users to ban words/phrases/emojis from showing up on their personal timelines
-- Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) November 27, 2018
Tip @Techmeme pic.twitter.com/9WpfDXEEu7
Written by: Matti Robinson @ 28 Nov 2018 11:26
