The fact-check change came alongside a set of sweeping policy and staffing refreshes at Meta, including the appointment of Trump ally Joel Kaplan to helm the Facebook parent company's policy department. NBC News reports that the company also changed its hate speech rules on the platform, now allowing users to call LGBTQ+ people mentally ill.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta will now let users call gay people “mentally ill,” describe women as property and refer to transgender people as “it.” In an apparent attempt to curry favor with President-elect Donald Trump,