Facebook and Meta company logos. File photoBELGRADE, Mar 12 Serbian Innovation Minister Nenad Popović condemned Meta for inciting hatred against Russia, his press office said. Russia and Serbia.» Anti-Russian hysteria reached its peak by the decision of Meta to allow Facebook to sow hatred of the Russian nation and openly call for violence against Russians. This is inhuman, immoral and irresistibly reminiscent of the persecution of Serbs, Jews and Russians in World War II, » — Popovich is quoted by his press service. The Serbian minister also stressed that Serbia «will never impose sanctions against the Russian Federation,» which would mean «renunciation of its vital political and economic interests.» Meta Platforms, in the light of the events in Ukraine, temporarily removed in social networks Facebook and Instagram ban calls for violence against the Russian military, but not against civilians population of the Russian Federation, said earlier the company's spokesman Andy Stone. According to Reuters, the new policy also allows calls for the death of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko. On Friday, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office went to court with a proposal to recognize Meta as an extremist organization and ban its activities in Russia. Russia's Investigative Committee has opened a two-count case over Meta's policy of allowing calls for violence against the Russian Armed Forces. Roskomnadzor said it would restrict access to Instagram due to calls for violence against Russians.
