olugabbie:
James Clayton

North America technology reporter

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has confirmed that it is changing its rules on violent speech in several countries because of the Ukraine invasion.

The company says that it has "temporarily" made allowances for violent speech - for example “death to the Russian invaders” - that would usually break its rules.

Meta said, though, it won’t allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians.

The internal emails discussing the policy were obtained by Reuters, and have not been seen by the BBC.

The Reuters report says that posts that call for death to Russian President Vladimir Putin or Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko will be allowed in several countries.

The temporary policy change allowing for calls for violence against Russian soldiers applies to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine, according to one email.

olugabbie:



I saw this on bbc.com this morning and i was dumbfounded. This makes no sense.

Totilopussylick:
l live in Germany



Russia is just rushing everything

olugabbie:


But this is uncalled-for. How can meta allow hate speech to used on leaders? This is preposterous.

YinkaOlusesi16:
Violent speech against leaders is our prime in nigeria, others countrys in the world cant speak up like nigerians. The kind curse buhari don collect putin no fit collect half.

seunny4lif:
Now, people will understand why China banned all those social media techs.
This is really bad.
If only Africa leaders can wake up and start be serious

ken6488:
I now see why China banned them

HYDEEE:
If I can type "death to russian invaders" can I also type "death to ukraine defenders" or "death to stupid zelenskyy" ?