{"id":287392,"date":"2018-11-29T11:18:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T09:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=287392"},"modified":"2018-11-29T11:20:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T09:20:59","slug":"facebook-testing-feature-that-allows-users-to-block-certain-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/287392-facebook-testing-feature-that-allows-users-to-block-certain-words.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook testing feature that allows users to block certain words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/11\/28\/facebook-testing-blocking-terms-on-wall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Engadget reports<\/strong><\/a> that Facebook is considering allowing users to block content with specific terms from appearing on their walls.<\/p>\n<p>The report comes after a computer science student, Jane Manchun Wong,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wongmjane\/status\/1067485315542077443\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>found code<\/strong><\/a> that shows the company testing this feature.<\/p>\n<p>The possible terms that users could block would reportedly include words, phrases, and emojis.<\/p>\n<p>This feature would not stop these posts from being published &#8211; it would just be hidden from view of the person who blocked the terms.<\/p>\n<p>This feature would serve as an alternative to the traditional blocking mechanism, allowing users to continue viewing other content that doesn&#8217;t contain the specified keywords.<\/p>\n<p>Instagram already offers a similar filtering system which allows users to hide comments containing unwanted terms.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/287254-how-to-use-whatsapp-without-a-sim-or-rica.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to use WhatsApp without a SIM or RICA<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The possible terms that users could block would reportedly include words, phrases, and even emojis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":221973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[16266,161,10424],"class_list":["post-287392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-blocked-account","tag-facebook","tag-instagram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287452,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287392\/revisions\/287452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}