{"id":2224,"date":"2015-11-08T14:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2015-11-08T08:12:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T14:12:21","slug":"facebook-to-soften-real-name-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2224","title":{"rendered":"Facebook to soften &#8220;real name&#8221; policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Social media giant Facebook will soften its policy requiring users to use their real, legal name on the site. Instead, users will be instructed to use their &#8220;authentic&#8221; name, or the name that their communities best know them as. Users reported for using a false name will be given more of an opportunity to explain why they are using it, and users doing the reporting must provide more reasons behind their flagging request. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2015\/10\/31\/facebook-to-do-away-with-real-name-policy\/\">PinkNews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The social network has come under fire for banning members of the LGBT community from using the site without their real names.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2014\/09\/18\/facebook-rebuffs-drag-performers-over-real-name-crackdown\/\">banned hundreds of drag artists<\/a> from the website last summer for not using their legal names on their profiles ? which was later <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2014\/09\/22\/real-name-police-targets-pervert-drag-performers-on-facebook\/\">revealed to be the work of one user<\/a>?submitting a vast number of malicious reports.<\/p>\n<p>The company promised<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2014\/10\/01\/facebook-agrees-to-drop-real-name-policy-which-banned-drag-queens\/\">?to alter its??real name? policy<\/a> to allow trans people and drag artists to use their chosen names if they prefer ? but no changes were ever?made, and people still face bans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/287927116\/Letter-from-Facebook-s-Alex-Schultz\">Read the full letter about the change here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman Social media giant Facebook will soften its policy requiring users to use their real, legal name on the site. Instead, users will be instructed to use their &#8220;authentic&#8221; name, or the name that their communities best know them as. Users reported for using a false name will be given more of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[468,466,467],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-change","tag-facebook","tag-real-name"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}