As part of its efforts to support creators and ensure that they can safely interact with their communities, Facebook has announced plans to unveil a range of comment moderation tools and controls to make it easier for creators to manage conversations on the social network site.
The Meta-owned company said this is coming as part of their way to mark the Safer Internet Day which is annually observed on February 7 to raise awareness of cyberbullying, social networking, digital identity, and other emerging online issues and concerns.
According to the Company, Creators will now be able to search comments by keywords, including emojis, commenter names, and dates, on their posts and take bulk actions, such as liking or hiding.
These tools will be available through the comments manager section in Facebook’s Professional Dashboard.
The leader of Facebook’s creator safety programs, Bobby Marshall, in a statement, said, “Building tools that help keep creators and their communities safe is foundational to Facebook’s creator efforts, and we’ve continued to invest here.
“We recently expanded Moderation Assist and introduced a Creator Support Hub last year. Today’s updates enable creators to do far more easily search comments – by keyword, date, emoji, and more – and to take bulk actions around them, such as liking or hiding them. Our goal with these tools is to give creators the time back to do what they do best – create content and build their community.”
Last year, the company expanded access to its live chat agent support to eligible creators and rolled out moderation features within the professional mode. Meta says it’s focused on providing creators with more comment moderation tools and controls.