LGBTQ creators brace for Meta's pro-Trump changes

Queer creators fear Meta’s decision to change its community standards to allow more incendiary language against people of different races and LGBTQ people could silence their voices, harm livelihoods and damage their mental health.

LONDON — Queer creators fear Meta’s decision to change its community standards to allow more incendiary language against people of different races and LGBTQ people could silence their voices, harm livelihoods and damage their mental health.

The changes to Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads, were announced last week by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, with critics saying the move was designed to appeal to President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office next week.

“We’ve reached a point where it’s just too many mistakes and too much censorship. It’s time to get back to our roots around free expression,” Zuckerberg said in a video released on Jan. 7.

Meta’s new global rules 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.’”

Meta now also permits “content arguing for gender-based limitations of military, law enforcement, and teaching jobs. We also allow the same content based on sexual orientation, when the content is based on religious beliefs,” according to the new standards.

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