{"id":78120,"date":"2019-02-05T07:30:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T12:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=78120"},"modified":"2019-02-05T05:07:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T10:07:27","slug":"pa-why-are-social-media-firms-facing-a-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=78120","title":{"rendered":"(PA) Why are social media firms facing a crackdown?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram boss Adam Mosseri said he was \u201cdeeply moved\u201d by Molly\u2019s story and acknowledged his platform was \u201cnot yet where we need to be\u201d on the issues of suicide and self-harm.<\/p>\n<p>Images that encourage the acts are banned, but the boss admitted that Instagram relies on users to report the content before it is purged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bottom line is we do not yet find enough of these images before they\u2019re seen by other people,\u201d Mr Mosseri added.<\/p>\n<p>But he said the Facebook-owned firm would introduce \u201csensitivity screens\u201d making it harder for users to see images showing cutting.<\/p>\n<p>The issue is not simple though.<\/p>\n<p>He argues a key piece of advice from external experts is that \u201csafe spaces\u201d for young people to discuss their mental health issues online are essential, providing therapeutic benefits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/wires\/pa\/article-6668809\/Questions-answers-social-media-companies-face-illegal-content-crackdown.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram boss Adam Mosseri said he was \u201cdeeply moved\u201d by Molly\u2019s story and acknowledged his platform was \u201cnot yet where we need to be\u201d on the issues of suicide and self-harm. Images that encourage the acts are banned, but the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=78120\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433,94,389,589,199,168,129,108,603,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networking","category-blogging-the-internet","category-church-of-england-coe","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-suicide","category-teens-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78121,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78120\/revisions\/78121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}