The full impact of Meta’s “community management” approach to moderation remains to be seen, but social media creators will feel this shift acutely.

Meta will allow its billions of social media users to accuse people of being mentally ill based on their sexuality or gender identity.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, dropped some LGBTQ protections from its hate speech rules Tuesday amid a wider overhaul of the social media giant’s content moderation practices. Under its newly updated policies on hateful conduct,

The changes worry advocates for vulnerable groups, who say Meta's decision to scale back content moderation could lead to real-word harms. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday the company will "remove restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are out of touch with