On August 7, Meta announced a new emphasis on “educating — not punishing” first-time violators of Facebook’s Community Standards.
In a blog post, Meta said that Facebook creators would be offered the option to take a training course on Community Standards. This would be in lieu of a formal warning on their account.
What are the new Facebook jail rules?
Upon completion of the Community Standards course, a first-time warning will be removed from the creator’s record, Meta explained in the blog post.
If creators then avoid any more violations for at least a year, they will have the option to re-take the course and have the warning removed from their account.
If creators violate the policy a second time in under a year, Meta will be less forgiving. The warning will no longer be removable. Any further violations will impact the account’s reach and monetization opportunities. In other words, this would mean that the account is thrown in “Facebook jail.”
If reach and monetization limits are “Facebook jail,” then we can consider this training course as effectively being a “get out of jail free” card.
However, it isn’t a complete free-for-all. If the account violates Community Standards in relation to things like sexual exploitation and glorifying drugs, the warning will be non-removable.
“People should feel safe and empowered on Facebook, which is why we have policies in place to protect our community,” Meta adds in the post. “But, we recognize that sometimes violations occur unintentionally.”
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