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Meta Drops Rules Protecting LGBTQ Community as Part of Content Moderation Overhaul

The changes included allowing users to share “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation.”

By Kate Conger

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Political Evolution, From Apologies to No More Apologies

Meta’s chief executive has stepped away from his mea culpa approach to issues on his platforms and has told people that he wants to return to his original thinking on free speech.

By Sheera Frenkel and Mike Isaac

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As Trump Praises Meta Decision, Tech Watchdogs Warn of Surge in Disinformation

While Republicans praised the move, some groups cautioned that effectively ending Meta’s fact-checking program would also lead to more conspiracy theories.

By Danielle Kaye

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Mark Zuckerberg Says Meta Fact-Checkers Were the Problem. Fact-Checkers Rule That False.

Fact-checking groups that worked with Meta said they had no role in deciding what the company did with the content that was fact-checked.

By Stuart A. Thompson