People were committing suicide on FB Live, Facebook has now taken this step

On World Suicide Prevention Day, Facebook has tightened its policies regarding self-harm, suicide and eating disorder and has announced the appointment of a health and welfare specialist in its safety policy team.

On World Suicide Prevention Day, Facebook has tightened its policies regarding self-harm, suicide and eating disorder and has announced the appointment of a health and welfare specialist in its safety policy team. Facebook, Global Head of Safety Antigone Davis, wrote in a blog post on Tuesday, "Earlier this year, we discussed experts from around the world to discuss some of the more difficult topics related to suicide and self-harm. Along with a regular consultation. This includes how to deal with the risk of online unhappy content, from a suicide note. "

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The social media giant has been working on suicide prevention measures for a few years and in 2017 it introduced its artificial intelligence (AI) based suicide prevention tools.

Davis said, "We have made several changes to improve how we handle this material. We have tightened the policy to not allow graphic cutting images to inadvertently promote and protect self-harm." 

Facebook-owned Instagram has started hiding self-harm pictures behind the 'sensitivity screen' from this year. The photo-sharing platform prevents self-harm content from coming to its 'Explore tab'.