Okay To Call LGBTQ+ 'Weird' And 'Mentally Ill' On Facebook Now

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NBC News reports: "The company’s new guidelines prohibit insults about someone’s intellect or mental illness on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, as have previous iterations. However, the latest guidelines now include a caveat for accusing LGBTQ people of being mentally ill because they are gay or transgender. “We do 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,’” the revised company guidelines read."

In addition, users may now refer to women as "household objects" and non-binary people as "it."

And Popular Information reports that Zuckerberg is taking big inspiration from President Musk, as Meta

"move[s] its Trust and Safety and Content Moderation teams out of California and our U.S.-based content review is going to be based in Texas." According to Zuckerberg, "as we work to promote free expression, I think it will help us build trust to do this work in places where there is less concern about the bias of our teams."

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