Meta overhauled its approach to US moderation on Tuesday, ditching fact-checking, announcing a plan to move its trust and safety teams, and perhaps most impactfully, updating its Hateful Conduct policy. As reported by Wired, a lot of text has been updated, added, or removed, but here are some of the changes that jumped out at us.

Zuckerberg’s blunt reversal this week puts an end to the era of corporate content moderation. Whether you view it as idealistic or sinister, content moderation has now ended as a failed experiment — even by its own terms.

The discontent arises from recent changes in content moderation policies that some employees feel undermine LGBTQ+ rights. The updated policy permits users to label LGBTQ+ individuals as "mentally ill," a move that has triggered outrage among staffers.

Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp, today announced a major overhaul of its content moderation policies, taking off some guardrails

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

Meta's reversal of its content moderation efforts of the past few years is set to create a seismic shift within the social media industry.

The implications of yesterday’s announcement by Mark Zuckerberg of the reintroduction of political content onto Meta platforms, and the crowdsourcing of content moderation to users in the form of community notes along with the removal of fact checkers from the business, are still being reckoned with.

The social networking technology giant will stop utilizing third-party fact-checkers on Facebook, Threads and Instagram and instead rely on users