Meta is rolling back key protections against hate and misinformation – making its platforms more dangerous. 

Mark Zuckerberg calls it a new era, but it’s a step backwards. Meta’s U-turn will let hate speech and misinformation spread more freely on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads – threatening our communities, public health, election integrity, and democracy itself. 

We analyzed Meta’s new key policies for its platforms and found that 97% of its enforcement in key areas like hate speech could be halted. 

With 3.35 billion people using Meta’s platforms daily, how will it keep them safe? If it won’t act on millions of harmful posts, it must be honest.

Meta should answer: 

1. How will it keep users safe if it stops acting on millions of pieces of harmful content? (Meta correctly acted on 227 million pieces of content in “at risk” policy areas last year.) 
2. Why is Meta abandoning a strategy it said reduces misinformation and social polarization? 
3. Why is Meta allowing dehumanizing hate speech back on its platforms? 
4. How will Meta combat election misinformation after replacing independent fact-checking? 

Users deserve to know which rules and safety measures Meta will trash.

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