Meta Drops Rules Protecting LGBTQ Community as Part of Content Moderation Overhaul

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  Judge scraps Biden's Title IX rules expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students

  The Biden administration’s Title IX rules expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students have been struck down nationwide after a federal judge in Kentucky found that they overstepped the president’s ...
  
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  Judge scraps Biden's Title IX rules, reversing expansion of protections for LGBTQ students

  President-elect Donald Trump previously promised to end the rules “on day one” and made anti-transgender themes a centerpiece of his campaign.
  
  NBC News - Jan. 9
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  The Guardian view on content moderation: Meta did far too little. Now it wants to do even less | Editorial

  Loosening already limited safeguards on social media platforms is not just damaging. It could ultimately prove deadly. Mark Zuckerberg famously boasted that Facebook had a saying: “Move fast and ...
  
  The Guardian - Jan. 8
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  Meta exempted top advertisers from standard content moderation process

  Social media giant’s ‘guardrails’ intended to ‘protect high spenders’ amid internal concern its systems over-enforced rules
  
  Financial Times - Jan. 8
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  Meta changes hate speech rules, dropping LGBTQ protections

  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 ...
  
  The Hill - Jan. 8
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  Meta announces major changes in fact checking and content moderation

  Meta, the parent of Facebook, said it will eliminate traditional fact-checking and will rely instead on community notes. The move was part of a pivot to a new emphasis on free speech. Meta will ...
  
  NBC News - Jan. 7
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  Meta's moderation rollback sparks celebration and despair

  Some Republicans celebrated the move which they framed as a result of their war against social media censorship. Fact-checking groups were blindsided.
  
  NBC News - Jan. 7
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  Meta's new hate speech rules allow users to call LGBTQ people mentally ill

  Meta will allow its billions of social media users to accuse people of being mentally ill based on their sexuality or gender identity.
  
  NBC News - Jan. 7

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