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Al-Araby
First came the warnings that Facebook and Instagram were harmful to mental health, then emerged the whistleblowers who slammed the platforms for prioritising profit over user safety and selectively enforcing content moderation rules. And this week, we realised that rebranding the platforms was never intended to rewrite the rules, as much as it was an attempt to start fresh and pretend there was no strong headwind. Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta – the parent company of Facebook and Instagram – reportedly made exceptions in the company’s rules to allow users in certain countries to post content with vio…