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 ...
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Ending fact-checking on social media fuels hate speech and harassment, experts warn
Meta’s decision to reduce content controls amplifies the most damaging effects of its platforms, as users are left without ...
Facebook rolls back hate speech rules, cites ‘recent elections’ as a catalyst
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Is allowing hate speech online good business?
Meta is loosening up its rules about hateful conduct on Facebook and Instagram. So what does that mean for groups who are ...