Crack down on cruel comments on police Facebook pages123rf.com Canterbury police are reassessing the way they post wanted persons on their Facebook page after cases of cyber bullying in post comments. Bullying comments on police Facebook pages across the country, including in Canterbury, sparked calls for better moderation in June. Comments on business Facebook pages could not be turned off, Jones said. "Police have a moderation filter running on all of their Facebook pages that automatically hides comments that contain profanities and bad language. As this was a manual process, "it can take some time" to moderate hundreds of comments, Jones said.

Source: Stuff August 20, 2017 06:07 UTC