Facebook Live started out as a feature of the Facebook Mentions application for celebrities, public figures and journalists, and the social network rolled out a host of updates for Facebook Live on Mentions.
Engineering manager Jesse Chen and product manager Chris Hatfield detailed the following updates to Facebook Live for Mentions in a Facebook Media blog post:

Team prompts, which allows users to create drafts of the descriptions for their Facebook Live posts.
A new comment-moderation tool, which enables Mentions users to filter certain words and phrases, preventing them from appearing in comments during their broadcasts.
Ad adjustments tray, enabling users to customize the appearance of their broadcasts.
A broadcaster status bar?being tested with a ?small group? of Mentions users?which provides information including audio level, connectivity, and battery status. Trimming, which allows users to eliminate excess footage from the beginning or end of their live broadcasts so that the unnecessary content does not appear in the archived versions of the videos.

Chen and Hatfield provided more details on the new features, saying they will roll out ?in the coming weeks?:
While many live broadcasts begin spontaneously, some public figures collaborate with their teams on ideas and themes for a broadcast before going live. With our new team prompts feature, a public figure?s team can create drafts of Facebook Live post descriptions, making it easy for the public figure to revie...