Meta will no longer outright ban all use of slurs used ecuador b2b leads to attack people on the basis of “their protected characteristics.” Protected characteristics include race, ethnicity and gender identity. So essentially, Meta has removed a clause that might stop people being targeted with terms based specifically on these elements.
Meta will now allow people to use terms relating to sex or gender, even when used in an insulting way, within discussions relating to political or religious topics, “such as when discussing transgender rights, immigration, or homosexuality.” So users will be allowed to use potentially harmful terms within these conversations, with Meta no longer looking to contextualize such, as it has in the recent past.
There have also been various changes designed to simplify the rules and facilitate more leeway around potentially insulting terms. Meta has also removed restrictions on comments that target people based on the suggestion, for example, that they may have spread COVID-19 (though this is now largely outdated either way).
Meta’s also looking to take a more hands off approach, in general, within discussions around things like immigration and gender identity, which are the subject of frequent political discourse and debate.
Essentially, Meta’s now moved to reduce its rules to allow for more kinds of speech, while the reduction of internal moderation and external fact-checking staff will also lead to more of these comments seeing increased exposure in the app either way. Which means that there are going to be more offensive, harmful posts shown to more people in its apps.
Which Zuck himself acknowledges.
For example, based on the latest updates to Meta’s Hateful Conduct policy, which were released today:
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