"As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we have temporarily made allowances for forms of political expression that would normally violate our rules like violent speech such as 'death to the Russian invaders.' We still won't allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians," a Meta spokesperson said in a statement to Reuters on March 11. Meta is essentially allowing Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to post violent content against Russian soldiers and politicians, which would have normally been against the company's hate speech policy. The company is even allowing calls for death to Russian President Vladimir Putin or Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Reuters said. Many tech companies including social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have announced a number of measures against Russia, specifically targeting the spread of misinformation by Russian state-owned media RT and Sputnik. In retaliation to this, Russia earlier this week blocked access to Facebook and Twitter. But the latest move by Meta to allow hate speech against Russian soldiers is unlikely to sit well among other countries. It will most definitely receive scrutiny from governments across the world including India because the exception is being made without any clear guidelines in place for such kinds of exceptions. It opens a can of worms because today it's allowing hate speech against Russians, but tomorrow it can be hate speech against some political faction that Facebook thinks is wrong. https://twitter.com/RespectIsVital/status/1502073311492247553?s=20&t=8ezzjftpktDr7p4N7PXX0A https://twitter.com/JeremyLittau/status/1502066222304841729?s=20&t=8ezzjftpktDr7p4N7PXX0A However, this is not the first instance of Facebook modifying its hate speech…
News
Facebook, Instagram will temporarily allow posts calling for violence against Russian soldiers and politicians
However, this is not the first instance of Facebook modifying its hate speech policy.
Please subscribe to MediaNama. Don't share prints and PDFs.
You May Also Like
News
Google has released a Google Travel Trends Report which states that branded budget hotel search queries grew 179% year over year (YOY) in India, in...
Advert
135 job openings in over 60 companies are listed at our free Digital and Mobile Job Board: If you’re looking for a job, or...
News
By Aroon Deep and Aditya Chunduru You’re reading it here first: Twitter has complied with government requests to censor 52 tweets that mostly criticised...
News
Rajesh Kumar* doesn’t have many enemies in life. But, Uber, for which he drives a cab everyday, is starting to look like one, he...