The operators of the site, which has 1.15 billionusers and can be accessed from the age of 13, saidthat they have decided to “strengthen” Facebook’spolicy on graphic violence. That does not mean itwill be reinstating a blanket ban on all decapitationvideos – a temporary measure which wasrecently lifted.
NEW YORK – Facebook has removed a videoof a woman being beheaded and updated itspolicy on graphic violence following a publicoutcry against the world’s largest social mediawebsite.In a move which David Cameron described as”irresponsible”, Facebook said on Monday thatit would be allowing all users to upload imagesand videos of graphic violenceso that they could be “condemned”.Facebook has nowbacktracked on that decision,moving to take down a particularvideo which had sparked thisweek’s debate. Titled”Challenge: Anybody can watchthis video?” and carrying nowarning of graphic content, ithad a masked man beheading a womanin Mexico. The operators of the site,which has 1.15 billion users and can beaccessed from the age of 13, said thatthey have decided to “strengthen”Facebook’s policy on graphic violence.That does not mean it will be reinstatinga blanket ban on all decapitationvideos – a temporary measure whichwas recently lifted.
