Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a series of major updates to its content moderation policies, including that it’s getting rid of restrictions on speech about topics like immigration, gender identity and gender. He described the company’s current rules in these areas as “just out of touch with mainstream discourse.”
Facebook, Instagram, and Threads (from Meta) are ditching third-party fact-checkers in favor of a Community Notes program inspired by X of Elon Musk.
In a notable shift, the company now says it allows “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like ‘weird.’”
In other words, Meta now appears to permit users to accuse transgender or gay people of being mentally ill because of their gender expression and sexual orientation.
Zuckerberg recently visited Mar-a-Lago to meet with President-elect Donald Trump and donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration. In his announcement, Zuckerberg expressed an intention to collaborate with Trump to oppose international regulations on social media companies.
For many, this signals an alignment with far-right agendas that could embolden hate speech on Meta’s platforms. Responding to questions from reporters, Trump said he thought Zuckerberg’s announcement was a result of the former president’s threats.
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