This deeply craven and dangerous reversal, ostensibly to reduce “censorship” from Meta platforms, will make Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp even more unsafe for LGBTQ+ users. That’s why, after 13 years on Instagram, amassing 80,000 followers, and having monetarily benefited from being an influencer, I am finally leaving Instagram.

Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement to Meta’s policy echoes language President Donald Trump has used for years to attack fact-checking.

Jewish groups celebrated a policy win when Meta banned the use of “Zionist” as a coded slur against Jews and Israel. Now, the same organizations are condemning the company for

But they risk emboldening and promoting hate speech. Many critics ... about someone’s intellect or mental illness on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, as have previous iterations,” NBC News ...

Social media giants including X and Facebook have agreed to step up efforts to tackle hate speech in the EU, the bloc said Monday as its digital rules face scrutiny with Donald Trump's return to the White House.

The Commission and the European Board for Digital Services welcome the integration of the revised 'Code of conduct on countering illegal hate speech

The European Union (EU) has updated its code of conduct on online hate speech, requiring social media platforms like Meta’s Facebook, Elon Musk’s X, and Google’s YouTube to step up efforts to tackle harmful content.

Other signatories to the voluntary code set up in May 2016 are Dailymotion, Instagram, Jeuxvideo.com, LinkedIn, Microsoft hosted consumer services, Snapchat, Rakuten Viber, TikTok and Twitch

Hate speech is a huge problem, and companies like X, Facebook, and Instagram have pledged to the EU to do more to tackle it. At the moment, the terms and conditions of all social media platforms forbid users from posting content deemed to be hateful.