Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 23097
Facebook: LGBT+ People
Tabled: 9 January 2025
Answered: 17 January 2025
Question
Sam Carling
Labour — North 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 ClarkThe 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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