For years, they have been collaborating with Meta to make the digital space safer against hate speech and discrimination. Tuesday January 7, they learned from a video from Mark Zuckerberg that the moderation of its content will change radically on Facebook and Instagram. Since then, Meta's partner associations, on which the company has relied to fight against online discrimination, have oscillated between disappointment and anticipation of the worst.
“With these measures, the increase in concrete violence is a certainty,” warns Julia Torlet, president of SOS Homophobia. The association, which fights against discrimination against LGBT + people, has been working with Meta for several years to improve human and automated moderation of hate speech.
After “real in-depth work and real progress”the American company's shift worries Julia Torlet all the more, who warns against the risk of attacks: “The liberation of hateful speech online promotes this same liberation in real life, but also the transition from words to action. »
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-Gender identity and sexual orientation were the first two categories to be officially targeted by Meta's measures. THE “community rules” on Facebook and Instagram now explicitly authorize the assertion that women are objects, or to qualify as “mental illness or abnormality” homosexuality or gender transition.
But beyond the official announcements, an internal Meta document, consulted by Platformer et The Interceptspecifies a much broader scope of hate speech not to be moderated. Messages like “Mexican immigrants are trash”, “Black people are more violent than white people” or “Jews are more greedy than Christians” are now authorized, according to these instructions addressed to the moderation teams.
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