The company has temporarily allowed calls for the deaths of Putin and Lukashenko.
Meta, which owns social networks Facebook and Instagram, has said it will change its content moderation policy and ban calls for the deaths of heads of state , according to Reuters.
Recently, the company temporarily allowed to call for the death of Russian President Vladimir Putin and self-proclaimed President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko in connection with the war that Russia has unleashed in Ukraine and supports Belarus. At the time, the company said that temporary changes in content policy were needed to give users the opportunity to comment on events in our country. On the same day, Russian authorities opened a criminal case against the platform.
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“We focus on making it clear in the guide that it should never be interpreted as indulging in violence against Russians in general. We also do not allow calls to assassinate heads of state, “said Meta Vice President Nick Clegg.
He also added that this is a “difficult decision. The situation in Ukraine is changing rapidly, we are trying to consider all the circumstances and bring our rules in line with them. ” According to Clegg, the company also does not allow calls for violence against Russian civilians and “opposes Russophobia, does not tolerate any calls for genocide, ethnic cleansing or any kind of discrimination and violence against Russians.”
It will be recalled that the Prosecutor General's Office demanded that Roskomnadzor block the Instagram social network in the territory of the aggressor country , as “publications with calls to commit acts of violence against Russian citizens, including servicemen, are distributed on this network.” Instagram blocking in Russia started on March 14.
Facebook has been blocked in the country since March 4 for “applying censorship to the Russian media.”
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