Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and other social media platforms have long been criticized for failing to remove content deemed harmful to teens, including videos and images of self-harm.

Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META), SnapInc. (NYSE:SNAP), and ByteDance -owned TikTok have announced a joint initiative to combat the spread of suicide and self-harm content online.

Meta, Snap, TikTok, and the Mental Health Coalition developed Thrive to stop graphic self-harm and suicide content on social media like Instagram, Facebook, and others from spreading.

Sept. 12 (UPI) --Three of the biggest social media platforms are teaming up to address online content that features suicide and self harm, Meta announced Thursday. Meta, the owner Facebook, Instagram ...

Meta, TikTok and Snap are the founding members of Thrive, a new program to share info about the spread of self-harm and suicide content.

Meta is teaming up with Snapchat and TikTok as part of a new initiative to prevent content featuring suicide or self-harm from spreading across the social media platforms, Meta said Thursday in a ...

Meta, TikTok and Snap are partnering with the Mental Health Coalition to launch a program that invites companies to share signals about graphic content depicting self-harm or suicide.

Listen to article Meta has announced a significant new initiative, partnering with social media giants Snap and TikTok to combat the spread of harmful content related to suicide and self-harm.

Thrive, which counts Meta, Snap and TikTok as founding members, will provide ways for platforms to share hashes — essentially unique fingerprints — of graphic suicide and self-harm content and ...

Meta, Snap, and TikTok have launched a joint initiative called Thrive, aimed at combating the spread of suicide and self-harm content online by sharing "signals" to identify and address ...

In an attempt to prevent suicide and self-harm content from spreading online, the nonprofit Mental Health Coalition (MHC) today announced a new program, Thrive, aimed at encouraging online platforms ...