Meta accused of ‘silencing dissent’ after removal of LGBTQ+ group’s Facebook post

An LGBTQ+ advocacy organisation’s Facebook post, which criticised Meta’s changes to the platform’s hateful conduct policy, has been removed for allegedly breaching the company’s “cybersecurity concerns”.

Equality Amplified, an LGBTQ+ origination which champions LGBTQ+ voices and rights, wrote to Meta on Friday (10 January), expressing concern about changes to the social media company’s fact-checking programme and hateful conduct policy.

A post containing the letter was shared on Facebook.

Three days earlier, on Tuesday (7 January), Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced a set of changes under which the company – which owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads – will no longer moderate posts on topic such as immigration and gender “that are the subject of frequent political discourse and debate”, and replace their independent fact-checking programme by a community notes system, similar

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