Facebook's secret censorship guidelines leaked

Reveals censor content relating to hate speech, pornography, terrorism, reports Tech in Asia

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The Guardian reports that it has seen more than 100 internal training manuals, flowcharts, and spreadsheets that Facebook uses to moderate content posted and shared by users on the social network.

The leaked documents supposedly reveal the guidelines used by Facebook’s moderators to analyse and censor content relating to topics as wide-ranging as hate speech, pornography, terrorism, match-fixing, and cannibalism, among others.

The rules suggest, for example, that Facebook will allow live-streamed attempts at self-harm because it “doesn’t want to censor or punish people in distress.” In another example, “handmade” art showing nudity and sexual activity is permitted, while similar