Social Media Platforms Shut down Self-Harm Content!

As part of this week's episode of "this week in social media" , we report that Meta, snapchat and tik tok join focuses to help “Detect and remove suicide and self-harm-related content”

The plan under the name “Thrive will be overseen by the Mental Health Coalition”

As meta claimed

“Through Thrive, participating tech companies will be able to share signals about violating suicide or self-harm content so that other companies can investigate and take action if the same or similar content is being shared on their platforms. Meta is providing the technical infrastructure that underpins Thrive – the same technology we provide to the Tech Coalition’s Lantern program – which enables signals to be shared securely.”

Allow to remove the content faster and build a larger database, of what types of content are being created that could lead to self-harm or suicide.

With the research I have done on this, there are some reports that,

“with suicide now being the second most common cause of death among American youth”