signs of september Suicide Prevention Monththe importance of working together to recognize people affected by suicide and suicidal thoughts, as well as to raise awareness and take preventive steps. It aims to do the latter with a new collaboration Meta is teaming up with the Mental Health Coalition creating Thrive, a signal sharing app. Thrive should allow participating companies to send signals to each other about self-harm or suicidal content, making it easier to locate and investigate the same or similar posts. Snap and TikTok join Meta as founding members.
Thrive will initially work through companies that provide hashes (codes that correspond to infringing content). Each of them will only provide information about the image or video and should not contain specific information about users or accounts. Meta it says it will prefer content that depicts or promotes graphic or viral issues around it suicide or self harm.
Meta announced the news and shared that Thrive is providing the technical infrastructure. The company has been is far from a shining example also acknowledged the need for cross-platform collaboration to prevent damage on its site. “Unfortunately, this content is not limited to any one platform — especially when it comes to viral challenges — and it’s important that the tech industry works together to prevent its spread,” said Antigone Davis, Vice President of Global Security at Meta.
Thrive director Dr. Dan Reidenberg will oversee the program and noted: “The integration of signal exchange, combined with cross-industry cooperation and managed by an independent and neutral mediator, represents a major advance in industry cooperation and public protection on a global scale. , public health crisis suicide and ultimately save lives.”
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in the US is 1-800-273-8255 or you can just dial 988. The Crisis Text Line can be reached by texting HOME to 741741 (US), 686868 (Canada) or 85258 (UK). Wikipedia protects list of crisis lines for people outside those countries.
