Facebook develops new features to help your group admins keep their communities safe, manage interactions, and reduce misinformation. Notably, the company has added the option for administrators to automatically reject incoming posts that third-party fact checkers have identified as containing false information. Facebook says this new tool will help administrators prevent the spread of misinformation in their group.
The company is also expanding its "mute" feature and updating it to "suspend," so admins can temporarily suspend participants from posting, commenting, reacting, participating in group chats, and more. The new feature is designed to make it easier for you to manage interactions in your groups and limit bad participants.
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Additionally, admins can now automatically approve or reject member requests based on specific criteria they set up, such as whether they've answered member questions. The group's "Admin Home" page is also being updated to include an overview section on the dashboard to make it easier for admins to quickly review things that need attention. On mobile, there's a new overview to help understand your groups' growth and engagement.
Facebook it also introduces new tools to help grow your groups and find relevant people to join your communities.
The company added the option for administrators to send email invitations to invite people to join their group. QR codes have also been added that you can download and share however you want, even offline. When someone scans the QR code, they will be directed to the group's "About" page, where they can join or request to join.
The new changes have been rolled out to all users globally.
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The announcement occurs when the Groups of Facebook have made headlines in recent years for its growing use by those seeking to spread harmful content and misinformation. groups of Facebook, due to their often private nature, have become breeding grounds for a wide range of dangerous content, including health misinformation, anti-science movements, and conspiracy theories. The new features announced today aim to address some of these issues and give admins more control over their communities, but they come years late in the battle against online disinformation.
This is not the first time Facebook gives admins more control over their groups.
In June 2021, the company introduced a new set of tools aimed at helping group administrators better manage their online communities. Among the most interesting tools was a feature powered by machine learning that alerts admins to potentially harmful conversations taking place in their group. Another feature gave the admin the ability to slow down a heated conversation by limiting how often group members can post. At that moment, Facebook it had said there were "tens of millions" of groups managed by more than 70 million active administrators and moderators worldwide.
In addition to working to ensure administrators have the tools they need to manage their groups, Facebook it is also focused on improving its Groups product in general. At its Facebook Communities meeting in November, the social media giant announced a host of updates to groups, including tools designed to help admins better build group culture, as well as several other new additions like subgroups. and subscription-based paid subgroups, real-time chat for moderators, support for community fundraisers, and more. The company had said that these changes were a preview of how the Groups will play a role in parent company Meta's upcoming plans for the "metaverse" it is building.
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