The timing of this change coincided with President Trump's inauguration, which Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg attended after donating $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund. Around the same time, Zuckerberg added Dana White, a longtime Trump ally and CEO of UFC, to Meta's board. '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,' Meta's hateful conduct policy reads. While this community-based approach to content moderation can sometimes provide important context to misleading or controversial posts, it functions better in tandem with other content moderation tools, which Meta is eliminating. Meta's greatest currency is its users' attention, and less content moderation means that there are more posts for people to see ' plus, Meta's news feed tends to surface content that generates a strong reaction. Already, as Meta began rolling back its...
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