Facebook lifts restrictions on calling women ‘property’ and transgender people ‘freaks’ (www.inkl.com)

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In an update to its hate speech policy on Tuesday, spotted first by The Independent, the apps' parent company Meta deleted numerous clauses banning specific derogatory statements about protected groups, while adding detailed exceptions for anti-trans speech.

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[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

People act like this is some sort of big pivot by Zuckerberg but Facebook's algorithms were spreading hate and desinformation long before Musk bought Twitter.

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