Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB), the owner of Facebook and Instagram, has updated its policies addressing potentially harmful content from the Israel-Hamas war on its social media platforms.
In addition to policies implemented last week when the conflict began, the company said Wednesday in a blog post that it has added temporary measures “to protect people in the region from potentially unwelcome or unwanted comments.”
This includes changing the default setting for who can comment on newly created Facebook posts or people in the region to the user’s friends and/or established followers.
Users globally can choose to use this setting and can opt in or out at any time.
Meta said it has also made it easier for people to bulk delete comments on their posts and disabled the feature that normally displays the first one or two comments under posts in Feed.
The social media giant added that it has also identified and fixed several bugs over the past week, including one that impacted Stories that re-shared Reels and Feed posts on Instagram resulting in them not showing properly in Stories and, in turn, reducing their reach.
It said this bug was global, meaning it was not limited to people attempting to post about the Israel-Hamas conflict.
It also fixed a global issue that prevented users from going Live on Facebook for a short time.
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