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UPDATE No. 2: Facebook has again reversed its policies on graphic content. On Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. ET, the company posted a six-paragraph statement titled “An Update on Graphic Content on Facebook” on the Newsroom section of its site. “As part of our effort to combat the glorification of violence on Facebook,” it reads, “we are strengthening the enforcement of our policies.” The key part of the statement comes in the fifth paragraph: “Based on these enhanced standards, we have re-examined recent reports of graphic content and have concluded that this content improperly and irresponsibly glorifies violence. For this reason, we have removed it.” Read the full statement here.

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Here’s something truly horrifying that you can apparently view on Facebook these days: “a clip of a masked man killing a woman, which is believed to have been filmed in Mexico,” as the BBC describes it. Facebook had previously banned such graphic content, but the BBC says it was alerted to a change in policy “by a reader who said the firm was refusing to remove a page showing [the] clip.”

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