Facebook to protect journalists and human rights activists from harassment

Facebook will consider activists and journalists as “involuntary” public figures and give them protections against harassment and bullying online, which could make it more difficult for Facebook users to criticize them.

Facebook is shifting how it approaches the harassment of journalists and “human rights defenders,” who it says are forced to face significant online scrutiny due to their jobs being public in nature, the social media company’s global safety chief said in a Reuters interview.