Facebook guidelines allow users to call for death of public figures

Exclusive: public figures considered to be permissible targets for otherwise-banned abuse, leaked moderator guidelines show

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Facebook's bullying and harassment policy explicitly allows for public figures" to be targeted in ways otherwise banned on the site, including calls for [their] death", according to a tranche of internal moderator guidelines leaked to the Guardian.

Public figures are defined by Facebook to include people whose claim to fame may be simply a large social media following or infrequent coverage in local newspapers.