Facebook and Insta under fire for allowing calls for death of Russians

Posts calling for their demise will be allowed unless they contain other targets or include the location and method of the killings, internal emails said.

In a statement, Meta justified its temporary change in hate speech policy saying it was in context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

“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.’

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