Facebook and Meta company logos on smartphone and monitor screens. File photoMOSCOW, March 11Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook), in the context of the situation in Ukraine, will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and the Russian military, as well as for the death of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, Reuters reports, citing internal documents of the corporation. Thus, we are talking about changing the policy of prohibiting incitement of hatred in social networks. temporary permission for incitement to violence applies to countries such as Russia, Ukraine and Poland, as well as Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. Relevant emails have been sent to content moderators.
"Calls for the death of leaders will be allowed if they do not contain other people as targets, and also do not indicate the location (subject) or method (of the murder)", one of the letters quotes the agency.
The circulars also note that calls for violence against Russians should be allowed if the message explicitly refers to the conflict in Ukraine. At the same time, calls for violence against Russian soldiers do not apply to prisoners of war. Last week, Roskomnadzor said that in response to restricting access to Russian media, it blocked access to the Facebook network. In addition, on Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law imposing administrative liability for spreading fakes about the actions of the Russian Armed Forces and calling for sanctions against Russia. After that, on Sunday, the Chinese social network TikTok announced that it would stop distributing new content in the Russian Federation and live broadcasts (streams) because of this law. » /> There is no turning back. Should those who fled from Russia be allowed back?