Following its decision last week to temporarily relax its policies, Facebook Parent Meta Platform Inc. clarified on Sunday that it is against the company’s user rules that sharing a post that “calls for the death of the head of state,” a reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
This comes a week after Facebook temporarily eased policies So that Ukrainian users could post threats of violence against the Russian military, which invaded its neighbor in late February. The change caused some public confusion about what is and isn’t allowed on Facebook and Instagram.
according to this bloomberg Report, META’s President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg Posting a statement on Friday said the move is aimed at protecting Ukrainian rights and does not indicate tolerance for “discrimination, harassment or violence against Russians”.
“We are now focused in this guidance to make it absolutely clear that it should never be interpreted as condoning violence against Russians,” Clegg wrote in the internal post. bloomberg, He added that the revised policy applies only in Ukraine, and “only in the context of speech in connection with the Russian military invasion of Ukraine.”
“We don’t even allow calls for the assassination of the head of state,” Clegg said, although he did not name Putin.
Meanwhile, Russia has blocked both Facebook and Instagram over the past two weeks, citing Meta’s content policy decisions. Meta had previously blocked Russia’s state-backed media accounts in Ukraine and the European Union, and blocked all advertisements from Russian businesses.
(with inputs from agencies)
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