The Facebook group Meta has updated its moderation guidelines. Users are now allowed to insult people due to their sexuality.
The American tech group Meta allows its users to describe people as “mentally ill” due to their sexual orientation or gender identity. This emerges from the new moderation guidelines that the company published on Tuesday.
Facebook group partially loosens guidelines
The news channel NBC News reports that Meta maintains the previous restrictions on insults about the intellect or psychological constitution of people on its platforms Instagram, Facebook and threads, but loosens when they are based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
“In view of the political and religious discourse on transgenderism and homosexuality and the general, non -serious use of words like 'strange', we allow claims about mental illness or anomalies if they are based on gender or sexual orientation,” says the revised corporate guidelines.
LGBTQ*organization condemns new guidelines sharply
The group has also deleted guidelines that prohibited users to describe trans people or non-binary people as “ES”. According to reports from NBC News, Meta has also abolished a number of rules that forbid insults due to breed, ethnicity, national origin, disability, religious belonging, class, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and serious diseases.
The president of the organization “Glaad” (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), Sarah Kate Ellis, is outraged by the decision: “Without these necessary hate speech and other guidelines, Meta gives the green light, LGBTQ people, women, immigrants and other marginalized groups with violence, hatred and stimulating narratives,” comments them Opposite NBC News.
She added: “With these changes, META continues to normalize anti-LGBTQ hatred at his own profit-at the expense of its users and the real freedom of expression. Measures to review facts and hate speech protect freedom of expression.”
Meta abolishes factual examination
The US group only announced on Tuesday (January 7) to end its fact check program in the United States. The Facebook founder explained in a video that the previous fact examination program was replaced by a community-controlled system.
The procedure is similar to the guidelines of Elon Musks Social Media Platform “X” (formerly Twitter), in which users can add context to the context classified, photo or video, said Zuckerberg. The meta chief described the decision as a “cultural turning point”.
The designated US President Donald Trump welcomed the company's step. “To be honest, I think Meta and Facebook have developed a lot,” said Trump at a press conference. He also indicated that Zuckerberg's decision to loosen the moderation may be due to his previous threats.
