Facebook: We’re not here to censor content

Facebook’s head of safety has told a cyberbullying conference that the social network’s anti-cyberbullying standards have “come a long way” in the past four years — but “we are not here to censor content”.

Patricia Cartes underlined how all new developments on the site were governed by the company’s working mission of “giving people the power to share and make the world more open” but “one of the first things that we examine on a new project is how this development could be abused”.

She said she “would not support” comments made by Ask.fm founder Mark Terebin that cyberbullying was more rife in Ireland and the UK than anywhere else.