Facebook has announced that it is taking steps on how it handles Pages and the content that goes against its policies. This update will bring a new tab; Page Quality to the Pages which shows when Facebook removes certain content that goes against the Community Standards. This will reduce the distribution of posts that have been rated false by a third-party fact-checker.
Furthermore, it is also updating the recidivism policy to better prevent those who have had Pages removed for violating our Community Standards from using duplicate Pages to continue the same activity. The new Page Quality tab is designed to help people who manage Pages understand how well their Pages comply with the company’s guidelines. The tab includes two sections; content Facebook recently removed for violating a subset of our Community Standards and; content recently rated “False,” “Mixture” or “False Headline” by third-party fact-checkers.
The company for the Page Quality is including policies like hate speech, graphic violence, harassment and bullying, and regulated goods, nudity or sexual activity, and support or praise of people and events that are not allowed to be on Facebook. While this tab provides greater insight into content that was removed or demoted, it is not a comprehensive accounting of all policy violations.
Facebook has long prohibited users from creating duplicate pages of the moved pages with the same content, but there has always been a loophole which led for such activities. To address this gap, when Facebook remove a Page or group for violating the policies, it may now also remove other Pages and Groups even if that specific Page or Group has not met the threshold to be unpublished on its own. Facebook says that it will look at a broad set of information, including whether the Page has the same people administering it, or has a similar name, to one it is removing.