Meta announced a series of major updates to its current content moderation policy, including ending fact-checking partnerships and “removing” restrictions on speech on “topics like immigration, gender identity and gender” that the company describes as frequently political subjects. discourse and debate. “It’s not true that it can be said on TV or on the floor of Congress, but not on our platform,” Meta’s head of global affairs, Joel Kaplan, wrote in a blog post describing the change. In the accompanying video, CEO Meta. Mark Zuckerberg described the company’s current rules in the area as “simply out of touch with mainstream discourse”. Guidelines, an extensive set of rules that outline what types of content are prohibited on Meta platforms, including Instagram, Threads, and Facebook. Some of the most surprising changes were made to the “Hate Acts” Meta policy, which included discussions of immigration and gender. given political and religious discourse on transgenderism and homosexuality and the use of non-serious words like ‘queer’. transgender or gay people who are mentally ill because of their gender expression and sexual orientation. The company did not respond to requests for clarification on the policy. Meta spokesperson Corey Chambliss told WIRED the ban will be lifted globally. When asked if the company would implement different policies in countries with strict regulations governing hate speech, Chambliss pointed to Meta’s current guidelines for dealing with local laws. on the basis of “protected characteristics,” which include race, ethnicity, and gender identity, when combined with “claims that they have or spread the coronavirus.” Without this provision, we may now have to accuse, for example, the Chinese of being responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic. The new addition appears to carve out room for people who want to post about how, for example, women should not be allowed to serve in the military or men should not be allowed to teach math because of their gender. Meta now allows content that challenges “gender-based restrictions in the military, law enforcement, and teaching professions. We also allow similar content based on sexual orientation, when the content is based on religious beliefs.” in conversations about social exclusion 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, certain schools, certain. military, law enforcement, or roles teaching, and health or support groups.” Previously, these carvings were only available for health care discussions and support groups were limited to one gender. Meta’s Hate Conduct Policy previously opened by noting that hate speech can “encourage offline violence.” That phrase, which has been in the policy since 2019, was removed from the updated version released Tuesday. (In 2018, after reports from human rights groups, Meta admitted that its platform was being used to incite violence against religious minorities in Myanmar.) The update maintains language at the bottom of its policy that prohibits content that could “incite violence or intimidation that will .”
