Meta will allow its billions of social media users to accuse people of being mentally ill based on their sexuality or gender identity.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, dropped some LGBTQ protections from its hate speech rules Tuesday amid a wider overhaul of the social media giant’s content moderation practices. Under its newly updated policies on hateful conduct,

Erika Hilton, a Black trans member of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies, has asked the U.N. to investigate Mark Zuckerberg’s revelation that Meta will end fact-checking and allow anti-LGBTQ+ hate speech to go unchecked on its platforms, which include Facebook and Instagram.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, has revised its hate speech guidelines to allow users to describe LGBTQ people as mentally ill. The change was announced in new guidelines released Tuesday by the media outfit.

Billions of social media users will be permitted to describe LGBTQ people as “mentally ill” and women as “property” under sweeping changes to Meta’s hateful conduct policy.

Tech giant Meta has rolled back restrictions around topics such as gender and sexual identity, a sweeping move advocacy groups fear will fuel hate speech."Removal of fact-checking programs and industry-standard hate speech policies make Meta's platforms unsafe places,

The social media giant will now allow users to question the mental health of LGBTQ people and compare minorities to diseases.

Meta has announced significant changes to its hateful conduct policy, sparking widespread debate over the balance between free expression and the spread of hate speech. The company plans to remove restrictions on controversial topics,