Employees Protest Zuckerberg’s Anti LGBTQ Changes

Meta participateees are furious with the company’s newly proclaimd satisfyed moderation alters that will permit participaters to say that LGBTQ+ people have “mental illness,” according to inside conversations geted by 404 Media and intersees with five current participateees. The alters were part of a huger shift Mark Zuckerberg proclaimd Monday to do far less satisfyed moderation on Meta platestablishs. 

“I am LGBT and Menloftyy Ill,” one post by an participateee on an inside Meta platestablish called Workplace reads. “Just to let you comprehend that I’ll be taking time out to see after my mental health.” 

On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg proclaimd that the company would be getting “back to our roots around free conveyion” to permit “more speech and scanter misapshows.” The company shelp “we’re getting rid of a number of remercilessions on topics enjoy immigration, gender identity, and gender that are the subject of standard political discourse and argue.” A scrutinize of Meta’s official satisfyed moderation policies show, definiteassociate, that some of the only substantive alters to the policy were made to definiteassociate permit for “allegations of mental illness or abstandardity when based on gender or relationsual orientation.” It has lengthy been comprehendn that being LGBTQ+ is not a sign of “mental illness,” and the counterfeit idea that relationsuality or gender identification is a mental illness has lengthy been participated to stigmatize and discriminate agetst LGBTQ+ people.

Earlier this week, we inestablished that Meta was deleting inside dissent about Zuckerberg’s assignment of UFC Plivent Dana White to the Meta board of honestors.