Meta, freedom of speech

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’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 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’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.
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 practices. Under its newly updated policies on hateful conduct,
Campaigners fear spike in hate speech as Meta lifts restrictions
Tech giant Meta has rolled back restrictions around topics such as gender and sexual identity, a sweeping move advocacy groups fear will fuel hate speech."Removal of fact-checking programs and industry-standard hate speech policies make Meta's platforms unsafe places,
Meta Rolls Back Hate Speech Rules
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.”
Fury over Meta's relaxed hate speech policies: "I really think this is a precursor for genocide"
The social media giant will now allow users to question the mental health of LGBTQ people and compare minorities to diseases.
Meta's right turn on red: Zuckerberg turns toward MAGA
All these moves indicate a rightward shift for Meta, as Zuckerberg joins the other leaders of Big Tech trying to curry favor ...
Regulating online hate speech ‘not censorship’: UN rights chief
If efforts to create safe online spaces are called censorship, ‘that ignores the fact that unregulated space means some ...
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‘Hate speech has real consequences’ — UN rights chief calls for online content regulation
Volker Türk,the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, says regulating online content is not censorship.
Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral”
Facebook now allows attacks on immigrants and trans people, and posts like “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “I’m a proud ...
Meta eases hate speech rules, follows Elon Musk owned X's mandate on sexual orientation, immigration issues
Meta has relaxed its rules on hate speech, allowing harmful stereotypes and permitting derogatory remarks about sexual ...
Meta ends fact checks as it prepares for Trump era
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ends fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram in favor of community notes, calling the recent election a “cultural tipping point” on free speech.