Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 23097

Facebook: LGBT+ People

Tabled: 9 January 2025
Answered: 17 January 2025

Question

Sam Carling

LabourNorth West Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of recent changes to Meta guidelines on hateful conduct which allow Facebook users to refer to LGBT+ people as

Answer

Feryal Clark
The government is aware of the changes Meta has made to its guidelines. This change does not affect the strong protections the Online Safety Act will bring in for UK users online. The Act will oblige all social media companies to remove illegal content an...

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