Jul 6, 2026 – 1.15pmMeta, the owner of Facebook, has defended policy changes that permitted offensive anti-immigrant and LGBTIQ speech on its platforms, including statements that “immigrants are scum”, “trans people don’t exist”, and “gay people are sinners”.Benjamin Good, the global director of the core policy team at Meta Platforms, told the antisemitism royal commission on Monday that the company had shifted to reactive removal of hateful content and said it was not possible to say if anti-Jewish hatred had increased because antisemitic speech was not tracked separately.Loading...Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month...
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