Meta's global policy chief stated, "It’s not right that things can be said on TV or the floor of Congress but not on our platforms."

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

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, has revised its hate speech guidelines to allow users to describe LGBTQ people as mentally ill. The change was announced in new guidelines released Tuesday by the media outfit.

Billions of social media users will be permitted to describe LGBTQ people as “mentally ill” and women as “property” under sweeping changes to Meta’s hateful conduct policy.

Erika Hilton, a Black trans member of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies, has asked the U.N. to investigate Mark Zuckerberg’s revelation that Meta will end fact-checking and allow anti-LGBTQ+ hate speech to go unchecked on its platforms, which include Facebook and Instagram.

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

Tech giant Meta has rolled back restrictions around topics such as gender and sexual identity, a sweeping move advocacy groups fear will fuel hate speech."Removal of fact-checking programs and industry-standard hate speech policies make Meta's platforms unsafe places,

The social media giant will now allow users to question the mental health of LGBTQ people and compare minorities to diseases.

Meta has announced significant changes to its hateful conduct policy, sparking widespread debate over the balance between free expression and the spread of hate speech. The company plans to remove restrictions on controversial topics,

The removal of independent fact checkers and moderation by Meta – which owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads, recently announced by Mark Zuckerberg, means social media users can call LGBTQ+ folks mentally ill because of their sexuality and gender identity.