Facebook Reverses Policy on Human Trafficking Posts

Facebook is reversing the controversial policy put in place early this year, first reported by the Washington Free Beacon, that allowed for users to solicit human traffickers to smuggle them across the border.

The social media giant, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, announced Thursday in a policy memo that, going forward, users are forbidden from posting any content that "offers to provide or facilitate human smuggling" or "asks for human smuggling services." The platform previously held that these types of posts were needed to protect human rights.