Facebook is adding a new feature to help with suicide prevention in the US
Feb26
Facebook is rolling out a new mechanism to help combat suicide in the US. This means that posts on the social networking site that appear to be suicidal will trigger a series of notifications offering help. The announcement, made in a post on Facebook’s official safety page, says that anyone who sees a post on their timeline that they deem to be suicidal can report it directly to Facebook, or a friend of the person, and it will then be reviewed by a trained team of specialists. If deemed appropriate, that team will send the poster private notifications with suicide prevention and support…
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