The Oversight Board previously criticized Meta's January policy changes as "hastily announced" and wrote that it was "concerned" about the company's decision to use the term "transgenderism" in its rewritten community standards. The company's policy, announced by Mark Zuckerberg in January shortly before President Donald Trump took office, now permits people to claim that LGBTQ people are mentally ill.

"We do 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 such as 'weird,'" the policy now states. In a decision related to two videos depicting public harassment of transgender women, the Oversight Board had sided with Meta on its decision to leave the videos up. But the board recommended that Meta remove the word "transgenderism" from its policy. "For its rules to have legitimacy, Meta must seek to frame its content policies neutrally," the board said.

https://www.engadget.com/social-media/meta-tells-the-oversight-board-it-isnt-removing-the-word-transgenderism-from-its-hate-speech-rules-180438796.html

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3 comments

  1. It’s like Zuck doesn’t realize that power shifts and, you know, Democrats will have power in ’28 and will be *really unhappy* about him cozying up to Nazis. Might even punish him for it.

    All that to get what? It’s not like the Trump admin is going to treat Meta favorably no matter what it does.

  2. “Politically neutral” equals grammatically incorrect and just false now apparently. It’s so great that one really skeezy guy can decide the future for millions of people and how the English language functions all by himself, isn’t it great this world we’ve made? Aren’t billionaires and large corporations awesome? /s

  3. Can someone fill me in on this word? Is it a former word now considered outdated or actively harming / hampering the trans community? I checked the definition online and it reads as neutral in regards to statehood of trans identity.

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