not only in the United States where there has been an uptick in hate speech and disinformation on social media platforms, but also abroad where disinformation on Facebook has accelerated ethnic ...

Meta's new hate speech rules — or lack thereof — now allow users to make shockingly misogynistic claims on the company's social networks. A perusal of the latest update to Meta's "hateful ...

Four years ago, when Trump lost, Zuckerberg had Meta tamp down on conspiracies after Trump’s election denial and Jan. 6 attack and banned the defeated president from Facebook and Instagram.

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

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, dropped some LGBTQ protections from its hate speech rules Tuesday amid a wider overhaul of the social media giant’s content moderation practices.

One way Meta will get back to its roots is by eliminating outside fact-checking on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, supposedly in the name of promoting free speech. It will cut off the network of ...

Some on the panel, however, were concerned whether this would lead to more "hate speech" on social media, which Sunny Hostin claimed was a different issue. "There's a difference between free ...

Facebook owner Meta last week reduced curbs ... Local legislation forbids some forms of hate speech, such as racial slurs and remarks that attack people for their religion. Meta in a letter ...