Facebook and Instagram have banned all posts that promote the dangerous and debunked practice of conversion therapy, reported CNN.
On Thursday (July 9), a spokesperson for Facebook confirmed the company’s hate speech policy had been updated to include the promotion of conversion therapy, a pseudo-science to “convert” LGBTQ people to straight and cisgender that is opposed by major medical organizations like the American Medical Association.
The new policy also applies to Instagram, which Facebook bought in 2012. “We don’t allow attacks against people based on sexual orientation or gender identity and are updating our policies to ban the promotion of conversion therapy services,” Tara Hopkins, Instagram’s public policy director for Europe,
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