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The Latin Times reports that Meta's announced content moderation changes are part of a broader policy shift that includes the suspension of the company's fact-checking program. Disparaging remarks about immigrants, gender, and sexual identity will now be considered acceptable content under Meta's revised moderation practices.

"It's important to keep in mind that what's being discussed is not in any way pure 'freedom of expression' (as Meta's leaders have characterized it): It's expression shaped by the incentives of the particular platforms, whose algorithms often favor and promote outrage and trolling"

Raicu added that even through "it will be harder for users to leave Facebook than other platforms, because it's become the infrastructure on which so many social things get organized." she thinks that "a more toxic environment will likely push a lot of people to post much less, and spend less time on the site."

Irina Raicu, director, Internet ethics, quoted by The Latin Times.