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I'm Christina Cotarucci, a senior

writer at Slate. And this week, I want to talk about something that's kind of been keeping me up at night.

You might have actually seen this news already. Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram,

recently rolled out a whole slew of changes to its policies,

basically reducing the types of content that the company will moderate on his platforms.

So that means some things that used to get your post deleted on Facebook or Insta are now fair

game, including some hate speech about queer and trans people.

So according to the guidelines that META sent out to employees, content moderators will no longer flag posts that say things like, and these are the company's own examples.

Trans people aren't real. They're mentally ill. Gays are not normal. A trans woman isn't a woman. It's a pathetic, confused man. A trans person isn't a he or a she. It's an it. And the most common transphobic slur is no longer prohibited either. Now, it's no coincidence that this all came down just weeks before Donald Trump

takes office. Mark Zuckerberg, the meta-CEO, and other tech leaders are falling all over

themselves to curry favor with the new president and align themselves and their companies with his

ideological agenda. So here to help me think through all this is Kate Nibs, a senior writer at Wired,

who wrote a great piece about meta's new policies, and we'll get into that after the break.

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