Facebook Live Killings. Legal or ethical duty to rescue a crime victim

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Increasingly, Facebook and other social media platforms have to deal with issues on how to translate ethical values without engaging in censorship. Violence prevention tools are just one way to limit exposure to violence, but Facebook uses artificial intelligence and employees to monitor online content. Facebook has no legal duty to rescue victims, but has an ethical duty to do so to the users, allow them to report suspicious activities, improve the risk oversight roles, and improve monitoring to ensure content does not violate community standards.
Legal or ethical duty to rescue a crime victim
The growth of social media has made it possible to live streaming events to a large audience, but the danger is that people increasingly use social media platforms like Facebook to live stream killings. Facebook has, moral and ethical duty, but not legal duty to protect the lives of the users when peoples’ lives are in danger, and this is possible when the authorities are alerted. In most states, bystanders are not required to help people when a crime is taking place; the social media platforms have a moral duty not to aid criminal activities and owe a duty to the users not to cause harm. Facebook removes content it deems harmful to different people, including children, to monitor activities and to limit live streaming of criminal activities and killings and even rescue crime victims. Facebook must rescue and report about criminal activities involving killings and should be mandated to intervene through better reporting to authorities. While Facebook may not necessarily rescue the victims, the site ought to safeguard the safety while monitoring activities and inform the appropriate law enforcement officers.
Reviewing the types of content that appear on their social media sites
Increasingly, Facebook and other social media platforms are using artificial intelligence (AI) and social media analytics to filter content. The sites should monitor the content as the standard of care obligates the platforms to protect the users and cause no further harm if a crime has already been committed. As such, the social media platforms need to improve the user's protection, including supporting more secure browsing is that there is better encryption, which makes it easier to identify offensive posts in live streaming.
Another way is to improve how people report about suspicions and offensive content, making it easier for them to notify the social media platforms. This is necessary to alert other users about the content of hate speech, harassment, misinformation, manipulation, threats to people, and offensive material including sexual assaults and evidence. When there is a pattern of certain people or accounts disseminating offensive material, these accounts should be suspended promptly, and the reason provided for this (Ben-David & Matamoros-Fernandez, 2016). In many cases, these accounts are suspended or closed when many people make complaints, and the content may be there for a longer period. The social media platforms also need to review the terms of service and policies, to highlight the rights and responsibilities of each user and make this more public...