(San Francisco) Facebook announced Thursday to make exceptions to its policy on violent and hateful content by not removing messages hostile to the army and Russian leaders.
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“Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we are making leniency for forms of political expression that would normally violate our rules on violent speech such as ‘death to the Russian invaders,'” confirmed to the AFP Andy Stone, head of communications at Meta, Facebook’s parent company. “We continue to not allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians. »