Meta's Platforms Have Become a Cesspool of Hatred Against Queer People

In front of hundreds of Georgetown students back in 2019, a clean-cut Mark Zuckerberg delivered an impassioned sermon on the importance of empowerment and free speech. The Meta CEO called civil rights advocate Elijah Cummings a "powerful voice for equality," credited Facebook as ground zero for #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo, and even cited radical abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

"More people being able to share their perspectives has always been necessary to build a more inclusive society," Zuckerberg said at the time. "But this view is increasingly being challenged."

Just a few short years, one right-wing turn and a bizarre makeover later, it's become clear that Zuckerberg had a very specific brand of free speech absolutism in mind.

A recent report by the prominent LGBTQ advocacy organ