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Workers at the Silicon Valley giant vented their displeasure on the company’s internal messaging forum Tuesday in response to CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that Meta will remove restrictions on free expression when it comes to controversial, hot-button topics.

said that discussions about sensitive subjects such as immigration and gender will no longer be subject to strict content moderation rules on Meta’s major platforms including Facebook, Instragram and Threads.

One Meta employee wrote on the Workplace chat forum that they were “extremely concerned” about the move, which they construe as Meta “sending a bigger, stronger message to people that facts no longer matter, and conflating that with a victory for free speech.”