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Meta Tells the Oversight Board It Isn't Removing the Word 'Transgenderism' From Its Hate Speech Rules

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If anyone was holding out hope that the Oversight Board would provide some kind of check on Meta's rewritten hate speech policy, Meta has just made it clear exactly where it stands.

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The platform now allows you to keep online videos that violate your own rules if they are considered of “public interest,” an ambiguous category that ends up enabling the circulation of content that includes hate speech and disinformation, in the name of “freedom of expression.” The change is in tune with adjustments that big techs have adopted after Trump’s triumph in the United States, and reinforces a backward trend in public spaces online, w…

A survey reveals a sharp increase in hate content on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, since the relaxation of moderation policies at Meta.

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