Sale of Amazon's protected rainforest land in the Marketplace will now be banned by Facebook
Facebook is limiting people's ability to use its e-commerce platforms to sell the world's largest parcels in the Amazon rainforest.
"Today, we are announcing ways to curb land sales efforts in conservation areas within the Amazon jungle on the Facebook (FB) Marketplace," the company said in a blog post on Friday, adding that it would review its commercial terms to "explicitly prohibited" ban or sell land on its platforms (including Instagram and WhatsApp) dedicated to conservation.
The world is one of the many products available on the market, and everything (assets and all) from used furniture to used cars are also for sale.
The announcement comes just months after a BBC investigation into the world's largest parcels of land and including acres of land covering national forests.
Facebook said on Friday it will check listings against an "authorized ( DATA base ) protected areas" from the United Nations Environment Program to determine whether they were violating its new policy.
"We are announcing this today, and the law will begin to increase," the company said. "Over time, we will look at how this process works and improve it as it should."
The announcement comes at the end of a very difficult week on Facebook, with the company under scrutiny by lawmakers after referee Frances Haugen testified in the Senate about the damage to his platforms and the massive end of his major services on Monday.
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