‘It is dangerous for Meta to normalise and essentially endorse anti-LGBTQ+ speech, allowing users to deny LGBTQ+ people’s existence and enabling them to call LGBTQ+ people “mentally ill” or an “abnormality” based on their sexual orientation or gender identity,’ he said.

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, Instagram, and Threads, has revised its hate speech guidelines to allow users to describe LGBTQ people as mentally ill. The change was announced in new guidelines released Tuesday by the media outfit.