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GLAAD RESPONSE: META AND Tag ZUCKERBERG REMOVE LONG-STANDING ANTI-LGBTQ HATE SPEECH POLICIES AFTER ANNOUNCING END OF FACT-CHECKING PROGRAM
Meta Quietly Removes Major Sections of Hateful Deeds Policies Protecting LGBTQ People and Other Marginalized People
GLAAD: “Zuckerberg’s removal of fact-checking programs and industry-standard dislike speech policies make Meta’s platforms unsafe places for users and advertisers alike.”
January 7, 2024 — GLAAD, the world’s largest homosexual woman, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media lobbying organization, today responded after Meta removed and adapted several sections of its Hateful Conduct Policy, rolling back safety guardrails for LGBTQ people, people of color, women, immigrants, and other protected groups. These changes to the hateful conduct policy are in addition to news this morning that Meta will end its fact-checking program.
Today’s sweeping and extreme policy changes represent a wholesale abandonment of the norms and best practices of content moderation. The novel language of Meta’s Group Standards includes numerous changes that will result in Instagram, Facebook, and Threads becoming unsafe landscapes filled wi
Stonewall responds to Meta's new policy changes
Responding to Meta's new policy changes, Stonewall's CEO Simon Blake said:
"We’re deeply troubled Meta is rolling assist policies designed to protect people using their platforms. Instead of promoting principles of tolerance and respect, one of world's most leading companies is taking the regressive and harmful step of allowing LGBTQ+ people to be described as mentally ill, and enabling the promotion of harmful and abusive conversion practices. This is a slippery slope and will undoubtedly have real earth consequences at a time when minority rights, including Gay rights, are already under threat.
"Online detest and disinformation damages how society views and treats marginalised groups, and undermines societal cohesion. Meta’s approach puts politics above people when many are already concerned about the toxicity of online discourse, risking furthering division instead of fostering community
"We own requested a conference with Meta to raise our concerns and will persist to work with the UK Government and technology companies to ensure that everyone is unharmed both online and offline."
This response was updated following
GLAAD RESPONDS TO META’S LATEST ANTI-LGBTQ CHANGES TO CONTENT POLICY AND DEI THAT WILL HARM USERS
GLAAD: “Meta and Trail Zuckerberg are now not only permitting and encouraging, but engaging in anti-LGBTQ hate speech … Meta is now an anti-LGBTQ company.”
January 10, 2024 — GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization is responding to Meta’s unprecedented set of draconian changes to its corporate policies, hate speech policies, and product features. In a available week, Meta modified major sections of its Hateful Deeds policy (to allow anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, and remove protections for LGBTQ users);terminated its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs; deleted trans and nonbinary themes on Messenger; and ended its fact-checking program. These striking announcements follow years of imperfect, but apparent LGBTQ inclusion from Meta, the parent company of Instagram, Facebook, and other platforms.
Response from GLAAD’s Social Media Protection Program:
“With these changes, Meta and Label Zuckerberg are now not only permitting and encouraging, but engaging in anti-LGBTQ hate speech — by intentionally employi
PolitiFact FL: Medical experts talk Meta policy that allows calling LGBTQ+ people 'mentally ill'
WLRN has partnered with PolitiFact to fact-check Florida politicians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning team seeks to present the right facts, unaffected by agenda or biases.
Alongside the announcement that Meta was conclusion its relationship with independent fact-checkers, the social media company outlined new "hateful conduct" policies. Those policies explicitly permit users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill" or "abnormal" without violating platform rules.
These changes are part of a larger shift in how Meta plans to moderate content and speech on its platforms, Facebook, Instagram and Threads. But these carve-outs could also authorize the spread of misinformation.
Leading medical experts do not consider being gay or transgender to be a mental illness, and we’ve fact-checked claims to the contrary.
For people who recognize as transgender, their sex — the biological category they were assigned at birth — does not match their gender self, which is someone’s internal sense of being a man, woman, or a nonbinary gender.
Here's what Meta changed, and what medical experts say ab
Meta's new guidelines allow users to say LGBT+ people are mentally ill
Meta's updated hate speech guidelines grant 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 perform 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'."
Now, Stonewall, the UK's biggest LGBT+ charity has told Sky News it has requested a meeting with Meta to raise its concerns.
"Online hate and disinformation damages how society views and treats marginalised groups, and undermines societal cohesion," said Stonewall chief executive Simon Blake.
"Meta's approach puts politics above people when many are already concerned about the toxicity of online discourse, risking furthering division instead of fostering community."
The update to the guidelines came as Meta changed how it moderates speech
GLAAD RESPONDS TO META’S LATEST ANTI-LGBTQ CHANGES TO CONTENT POLICY AND DEI THAT WILL HARM USERS
GLAAD: “Meta and Trail Zuckerberg are now not only permitting and encouraging, but engaging in anti-LGBTQ hate speech … Meta is now an anti-LGBTQ company.”
January 10, 2024 — GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization is responding to Meta’s unprecedented set of draconian changes to its corporate policies, hate speech policies, and product features. In a available week, Meta modified major sections of its Hateful Deeds policy (to allow anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, and remove protections for LGBTQ users);terminated its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs; deleted trans and nonbinary themes on Messenger; and ended its fact-checking program. These striking announcements follow years of imperfect, but apparent LGBTQ inclusion from Meta, the parent company of Instagram, Facebook, and other platforms.
Response from GLAAD’s Social Media Protection Program:
“With these changes, Meta and Label Zuckerberg are now not only permitting and encouraging, but engaging in anti-LGBTQ hate speech — by intentionally employi
PolitiFact FL: Medical experts talk Meta policy that allows calling LGBTQ+ people 'mentally ill'
WLRN has partnered with PolitiFact to fact-check Florida politicians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning team seeks to present the right facts, unaffected by agenda or biases.
Alongside the announcement that Meta was conclusion its relationship with independent fact-checkers, the social media company outlined new "hateful conduct" policies. Those policies explicitly permit users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill" or "abnormal" without violating platform rules.
These changes are part of a larger shift in how Meta plans to moderate content and speech on its platforms, Facebook, Instagram and Threads. But these carve-outs could also authorize the spread of misinformation.
Leading medical experts do not consider being gay or transgender to be a mental illness, and we’ve fact-checked claims to the contrary.
For people who recognize as transgender, their sex — the biological category they were assigned at birth — does not match their gender self, which is someone’s internal sense of being a man, woman, or a nonbinary gender.
Here's what Meta changed, and what medical experts say ab
Meta's new guidelines allow users to say LGBT+ people are mentally ill
Meta's updated hate speech guidelines grant 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 perform 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'."
Now, Stonewall, the UK's biggest LGBT+ charity has told Sky News it has requested a meeting with Meta to raise its concerns.
"Online hate and disinformation damages how society views and treats marginalised groups, and undermines societal cohesion," said Stonewall chief executive Simon Blake.
"Meta's approach puts politics above people when many are already concerned about the toxicity of online discourse, risking furthering division instead of fostering community."
The update to the guidelines came as Meta changed how it moderates speech