Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto / Contributor | NurPhoto) Even though Twitter’s terms of service explicitly ban posts glorifying self-harm and media depicting “visible wounds,” independent researchers report that Twitter too often seemingly looks the other way regarding self-harm. Researchers from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) estimate there are “certainly” thousands, and possibly “hundreds of thousands,” of users […]
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Coronation Street spoiler: Bethany to self-harm as sex ring plot takes disturbing turn
The teen will return home in upcoming scenes after the Platts rescue her from Nathan’s (played by Chris Harper) evil grasp but she will refuse to believe how dangerous the groomer is. Her mother Sarah (Tina O’Brien), Gary (Mikey North), David (Jack P. Shepherd) and Shona (Julia Goulding) all try to explain that Nathan has […]
REVEALED: Facebook will not delete videos of violent death, self-harm or abortion
With the social media giant under pressure from world leaders to remove controversial content, the extensive guidelines used by Facebook employees has been revealed to the Guardian. Facebook will allow users to lifestream self-harm attempts because it “doesn’t want to censor or punish people in distress who are attempting suicide”, according to the leaked documents. […]