Facebook’s suicide-prevention tool improved

Facebook has announced improvements to its suicide prevention tool, ahead of Sunday’s World Suicide Prevention Day.

Facebook’s suicide-prevention tool improved
Tue, 06 Sep, 2016 - 01:00
Jessica Casey

Developed with the support of the Samaritans, the tool is available to Facebook’s 2.1 million Irish users.

They will now have the option to flag content of concern posted by friends.

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