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Meta, Snap, and TikTok partner to stop the spread of suicide and self-harm content


Thrive tries to stop people from seeing self-harm content.

Meta, Snap, and TikTok have founded a new program called Thrive to help stop the spread of graphic content depicting or encouraging self-harm and suicide. Meta says it’s already made such content harder to find on its platform but that it’s trying to leave room for people to discuss their mental health, suicide, and self-harm stories, as long as they aren’t promoting it or providing graphic descriptions. According to Meta’s charts, the company takes action on millions of pieces of suicide and self-harm content every quarter.

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