REPORT ON HATE SPEECH OR OTHER PROBLEM POSTS
To report something that you feel goes against Facebook’s Community Standards, the process is relatively simple:- Click on the three dots to the right of the post.
- Choose “Give feedback on this post.”
- Select the reason you’re reporting the post. These include nudity, violence, harassment, terrorism, and hate speech, among others. Click Send. (You may be asked for more details in the next screen.)
REPORT ON AN IMPERSONATION
- Go to the profile page of the person who is impersonating you.
- Click on the three dots near the top right of the profile page and select “Give feedback or report this profile.”
- Choose the reason you are reporting the profile. Choices include “Pretending to be Someone” and “Fake Name,” among others.
REPORT AN AD
This is actually something I’ve taken advantage of several times — not because an ad was egregiously offensive, but because it was highly irritating or had repeated on my timeline so many times I couldn’t bear to look at it again.- Click on the three dots to the right of the post.
- Click on “Hide ad” if you just don’t want to see it again or “Report ad” if it’s seriously problematic. The former will immediately get rid of the ad; the latter will ask you to say if the ad is offensive, a scam, or from a political candidate (who presumably you don’t want to hear from).
IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING
There are a number of other things you can do if you’re bothered by an obnoxious Facebook post or user. If you click on the three dots to the top right of a post, you can hide that post, hide the person from your timeline (or just snooze them for 30 days), or unfollow them. If you click on the three dots on a person’s profile, you can block them. And if things just get too annoying to deal with, you can always simply delete Facebook. But under the presumption that you don’t want to leave Facebook entirely, your best option if confronted with something nasty is, according to Facebook, to report it. While you won’t be making the moderators’ lives any easier, you might prevent other Facebook users from having their days ruined. Someone who wants to get at you for political, personal, or other reasons might use Facebook to impersonate you by creating an account with a name similar to yours and trying to make people believe it’s authentic. If somebody is masquerading as you on the platform, you can report that specifically to Facebook:DISCLAIMER: The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.
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