THE Goal updated, this Thursday (9), its social media policy in the Portuguese version on what is considered “hateful conduct”. One of the main changes is that, from now on, users are no longer prevented from making posts that associate, for example, mental illness with sexual orientation.
The company highlighted that it will continue to remove content considered “dehumanizing, allegations of immorality or serious criminality and slander.”
The new text, available on Meta’s transparency policies page, points out that it is no longer prohibited to make “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, considering political and religious discourses about transgenderism and homosexuality”.
In line with updates announced by Mark Zuckerberg this week, the usage policies also allow posts that promote “exclusions based on sex or gender in spaces generally restricted by these categories, such as bathrooms, sports and sports leagues, health and support groups, and specific schools” and gender-based insults, as long as “within the context of ending a romantic relationship”.
The new rules apply to all networks controlled by the company – Facebook, Instagram and Threads .
New definitions of “hateful conduct”
The text explaining the new policy highlights that the Meta “defines hateful conduct as direct attacks on people, not concepts and institutions, based on what we call protected characteristics: race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion, caste, orientation sexual, sex, gender identity and serious illness.”
Meta also says that “serious insults, expressions of contempt or disgust, swearing and incitement to exclusion or segregation when directed at people based on protected characteristics” will also continue to be removed from its social media pages.
It is possible to check the new rules on hateful conduct on Meta’s social networks on the company’s official websitewhich lists all cases in which content can be removed (and their exceptions).
This content was originally published in Meta updates usage policies for users in Brazil on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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