Meta’s social networks have temporarily changed their policy to accept messages calling for violence against Russian soldiers or citizens “in the context of the invasion of Ukraine.”
Social networks Facebook and Instagram will allow hate messages against Russian soldiers and citizens in the context of the invasion of Ukraine, according to documents cited by the Reuters agency.
This change in the policy of Meta, the company of Mark Zuckerberg, it will also allow calls for the deaths of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
The internal documents of the multinational mention some exception, such as messages against prisoners of war or that, in addition to requesting the assassination of presidents, they also include other objectives or specify the method.
In addition to Russia and Ukraine, this unprecedented change in the rules on speech that is allowed on Facebook and Instagram will apply in other countries that belonged to the Soviet Union, such as Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia and Lithuania and, also , in Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania.
The Russian embassy in the United States has asked its government to stop “extremist activities” in Meta.
Source: Eitb
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