Facebook allows hate speech against Russia - Anger in Moscow

With its operations suspended Meta threatens to Russia, if it turns out that the Facebook changed the rules on hate speech for Russians.
In fact, the Russian prosecutor’s office has asked the Russian judiciary to designate Meta Platforms, Facebook’s parent company, as an «extremist organization,» the Interfax news agency reported today.

The prosecutor's office also asked Russia's telecommunications regulator to restrict access to the Instagram, a social media platform owned by Meta.
Η Meta Platforms decided to allow users of Facebook and Instagram in several countries to post content calling for violence against Russians.
At the same time, TASS reported that investigative authorities had opened a case regarding the actions of Meta.

Η Russia will suspend its operations Meta Platforms If the information reported by Reuters proves to be true, according to which the platform will allow its users in certain countries to incite violence against Russians and Russian soldiers, the company warned earlier today that Kremlin.

Meta Platforms allows hate speech against Russia

According to internal messages obtained by the Reuters news agency yesterday, Thursday, the Meta Platforms decided to allow users of Facebook and Instagram in several countries to post content calling for violence against Russians, particularly Russian military personnel, temporarily lifting the ban on hate speech stipulated in its terms of service.

Threats from the Kremlin

“We don’t want to believe the Reuters report; it’s just hard to believe,” commented the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
“We hope that this is not true, because if it is, then that means the most decisive measures will have to be taken to suspend this company’s operations,” he added.

Andy Stone, a spokesperson for Meta, confirmed the change to the websites“ terms of use to AFP. ‘Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we are showing leniency toward forms of political expression that would normally violate our policies on incitement to violence, such as ’death to Russian invaders,”“ he said, adding that ”we continue to not permit calls for violence against Russian civilians.”.

This policy change concerns the Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine.