Facebook allows women to be used as budgetary items

Facebook allows women to be used as budgetary items

On Tuesday, Meta has announced comprehensive changes to its moderation policy, which will be implemented gradually in the coming months. Among other things, the company will do without professional facts. At the same time, the guideline for hater -filled statements was tacitly updated in terms of the types of content that users can post on the platform in the future. These changes are immediately effective.

new guidelines for hateful statements

Now, for example, users can call "women as household items or property" or "transgender or non-binary persons as 'es'". According to a crossed-out section of the directive was such an expression beforehand. A new section in the guideline states that META "claims about mental illnesses or irregularities based on gender or sexual orientation, as part of political and religious discourse on transgenderism and homosexuality."

changes in dealing with content

In the past, such comments should have been removed. The changes to Metas guidelines on hateful statements were first reported by WIRED. Meta had indicated in his announcement on Tuesday morning that restrictions on certain topics such as immigration and gender identity were lifted. The updated guideline illustrates how quickly Meta wants to implement the vision of his CEO Mark Zuckerberg for "freedom of expression".

waiver of independent facts

In addition, Meta announced that his network of independent facts in the United States canceled and instead re -re -re -drawn to user -generated "community notes" in order to give posts context. In addition, the automated system is to be adapted to check guideline violations, since the company indicates that this would "censor too many content that should not have been." The systems are now only focused on extreme violations such as sexual exploitation of children and terrorism.

criticism of the new measures

Zuckerberg admitted that this new approach would mean "that we will capture less harmful content, but at the same time reduce the number of harmless posts and accounts that we accidentally block." Meta did not react immediately to an inquiry about the changes in the guideline for hateful statements.

political implications of the changes

The changes from Tuesday come at a time when the company and its guide try to approach Donald Trump and other Republicans before the second term of the president. In the announcement, it is referred to long -lasting reviews that Meta is supposed to censor conservative voices. Trump welcomed the changes in a press conference on Tuesday and expressed that he believed that the decisions were "probably" due to threats that he has spoken to Zuckerberg in the past. Experts who examine the online information ecosystem, however, warn that the changes could lead to an increase in false claims and hateful statements on metas platforms.

further changes in politics

Under the further changes in Metas guideline for hateful statements, the ban against statements that deny the existence of protected groups was lifted. Now it is also allowed to publish content that is called for "gender -related restrictions on military, police and teachers". In addition, the "disinformation" guideline was updated to note the dissolution of the US factual tester network.