The full impact of Meta’s “community management” approach to moderation remains to be seen, but social media creators will feel this shift acutely.

Meta will allow its billions of social media users to accuse people of being mentally ill based on their sexuality or gender identity.

Mark Zuckerberg has fully adopted the language of his former right-wing critics about what constitutes censorship.

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, 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.

The Menlo Park, California-based company also removed a sentence from its “policy rationale” explaining why it bans certain hateful conduct. The now-deleted sentence said that hate speech “creates an environment of intimidation and exclusion, and in some cases may promote offline violence.”