“Death to the Russian invaders” – normally such a sentence would violate Facebook rules. However, the social medium is now relaxing its hate speech regulations for certain users.
Facebook group Meta is partially relaxing its rules to allow calls for violence against Russian troops in Ukraine.
A Facebook spokesperson cited the phrase “death to Russian invaders” as an example of an exception to utterances that would normally have violated policies. “We will continue to not allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians,” he wrote on Twitter.
Facebook has been blocked in Russia since the start of the Ukraine war
The easing only applies to users in some countries, including Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Hungary, wrote the New York Times. In the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, which has been going on for more than two weeks, many Ukrainians are also venting their anger on Facebook.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov threatened “decisive measures” if meta services were not to block the calls for violence. The head of the Russian parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, said the move would have to be examined by the Russian prosecutor’s office, the TASS news agency reported. The media regulator Roskomnadzor demanded clarification from the group.
Facebook is blocked in Russia while other meta-services like WhatsApp and Instagram are still working.
Source: Stern
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