Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company is loosening its hate speech rules, arguing that current policies are out of touch with mainstream discourse. Updates to Meta's Community Guidelines include allowing accusations of mental illness against transgender and gay people, removing language prohibiting content targeting people based on protected characteristics in relation to COVID-19, and permitting content arguing for gender-based limitations in certain professions. The company also removed language stating that hateful speech may promote offline violence.
In an accompanying video, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the company’s current rules in these areas as “just out of touch with mainstream discourse.” In tandem with this announcement, the company made a number of updates across its Community Guidelines , an extensive set of rules that outline what kinds of content are prohibited on Meta ’s platforms, including Instagram, Threads, and Facebook.
” Another update elaborates on what Meta permits in conversations about social exclusion. It now states that “people sometimes use sex- or gender-exclusive language when discussing access to spaces often limited by sex or gender, such as access to bathrooms, specific schools, specific military, law enforcement, or teaching roles, and health or support groups.' Previously, this carve-out was only available for discussions about keeping health and support groups limited to one gender.
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