Meta, hate speech

Facebook rolls back hate-speech rules, citing ‘recent elections’
In addition to ending fact-checking, Meta has loosened its rules around hate speech and abuse, specifically when it comes to sexual orientation, gender identity and immigration status.
How Meta’s New Hate Speech Rules Could Impact Creators And Audiences
Meta’s content moderation overhaul is likely to expose creators to more unjust punishment, over-censorship and potentially severe financial losses.
Meta changes hate speech rules, dropping LGBTQ protections
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, dropped some LGBTQ protections from its hate speech rules Tuesday amid a wider overhaul of the social media giant’s content moderation
Meta rolls back hate speech rules as Zuckerberg cites 'recent elections' as a catalyst
It wasn’t just fact-checking that Meta scrapped from its platforms as it prepares for the second Trump administration. The social media giant has also loosened its rules around hate speech
Meta reviews hate speech guidelines, to allow labelling of LGBTQ people as mentally sick
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, has revised its hate speech guidelines to allow users to describe LGBTQ people as mentally ill. The change was announced in new guidelines released Tuesday by the media outfit.
Meta’s new hate speech rules allow users to call LGBTQ people mentally ill
Meta will allow its billions of social media users to accuse people of being mentally ill based on their sexuality or gender identity.
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Meta’s Allowance of Hate Speech Is Another Side Effect of Big Tech Monopoly
Activists say debates over content moderation devolve into partisan food fights instead of challenging tech titans.
No Fact-Checking and More Hate Speech: Meta Goes MAGA
Mark Zuckerberg has fully adopted the language of his former right-wing critics about what constitutes censorship.
Meta Kills Diversity Initiatives, Loosens Hate Speech Rules, Deletes 'Trans' Theme From App
In a separate but related development flagged by the publication 404 Media, Meta deleted the “trans” and “nonbinary” themes from its Messenger app this week. Themes allow users to change the ...
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Zuckerberg Announces New Measures to Increase Hate Speech on Facebook
In an ass-backwards attempt to get with the times, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced sweeping changes on Facebook, ...
Regulating Online Hate Speech 'Not Censorship': UN Rights Chief
The UN rights chief insisted Friday that regulating hate speech and harmful content online "is not censorship", days after Meta scrapped its fact-checking programme on Facebook and Instagram citing ...
Meta CEO mocks Apple for 'sitting on' iPhone 20 years later despite doing the same with Facebook
During an interview with Joe Rogan about Meta's abandonment of fact-checking and changing rules to allow hate speech, Meta's ...
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Leaked Facebook Documents Show Exactly How Far You’re Allowed to Turn the "Racism" Dial
New Rules When preparing for its content moderation overhaul, Meta secretly provided its employees examples of horrific hate ...
Facebook lifts restrictions on calling women ‘property’ and transgender people ‘freaks’
The social media giant Meta has loosened its public rules on hate speech as Mark Zuckerberg seeks to curry favour with Donald Trump ...