Facebook to crack down on groups that break its rules

[mia]

I enjoy Facebook groups and have created and moderate several that feature genealogy and local history. It's an enjoyable outlet for many history buffs as far as I can tell. So far, I've had few problems, and no alerts for rule-breaking.

...Facebook said Wednesday that it is changing the way it recommends groups and will limit the reach of those that break its rules, a move that comes amid scrutiny of the platform's propensity to push some of its users to extremism....

Under the new rules, which will apply to its tens of millions of active groups, Facebook will show rule-breaking groups lower in the recommendations bar, making them less discoverable to other users. The more rules a group breaks, the more it will increase restrictions until it is removed completely....

The move is the most recent and far-reaching expansion of efforts by the social media giant to mitigate harmful content in groups on its platform. In January, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook would no longer recommend "civic" and "political" groups, following the Capitol riot. In 2020, it said it would stop recommending "health" groups, and banned militia and QAnon groups entirely....

He said the changes would go into effect globally over the next few months.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-crack-groups-break-rules-rcna435

[Midnight Writer]

1. "Punishing" rule breakers will be framed as an attack on conservatism. Wait and see.

[Karadeniz]

2. Why do they bother with rules?