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Meta’s updated hate speech guidelines allow users to call people mentally ill based on their sexuality or gender identity.
The guidelines, which were updated on Tuesday, still do not allow Facebook, Instagram or Threads users to insult people based on their mental health – except in this new, specific scenario.
The guidelines now read: “We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like ‘weird’.”
The update to the guidelines came as Meta changed how it moderates speech on its platforms.
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that the company would scrap third party fact checkers, replacing them with a system similar to X’s “community notes”.
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