Meta will allow its billions of social media users to accuse people of being mentally ill based on their sexuality or gender identity.

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. Under its newly updated policies on hateful conduct,

NBC News reports that Meta will allow its billions of social media users to accuse people of being mentally ill based on their sexuality or gender identity,

The revised policy maintains bans on insults targeting intellect or mental health but introduces an exception for allegations tied to sexual orientation or gender identity. These allowances reflect the political and religious discourse around LGBTQ+ issues and the casual use of terms like “weird.

It wasn’t just fact-checking that Meta scrapped from its platforms as it prepares for the second Trump administration.

Billions of social media users will be permitted to describe LGBTQ people as “mentally ill” and women as “property” under sweeping changes to Meta’s hateful conduct policy.

The parent company to Facebook, Instagram, and Threads revises its hateful conduct policy to 'allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation.'

We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation,” Meta announced this week, along with other major policy changes to its platforms (Facebook, Instagram,

The tech giant overhauled Facebook, Instagram, and Threads' Hateful Conduct policy to be much more permissive.