Facebook has reversed a ban that it implemented earlier this year forbidding the posting of graphic and gruesome content such as videos of decapitations and other atrocities. The social media company apparently made this about-face some time ago, but it only became widely noticed when the BBC reported on it this week after being alerted by a reader who said the social network had refused to remove a page with a clip of a masked man killing a woman. The ban was originally imposed in May.
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Facebook: Decapitation Vids Are OK if You Oppose Decapitation
Posted by: Erika Morphy October 22, 2013 11:52 AMFacebook has reversed a ban that it implemented earlier this year forbidding the posting of graphic and gruesome content such as videos of decapitations and other atrocities. The social media company apparently made this about-face some time ago, but it only became widely noticed when the BBC reported on it this week after being alerted by a reader who said the social network had refused to remove a page with a clip of a masked man killing a woman. The ban was originally imposed in May.