{"id":1370842,"date":"2022-03-11T08:18:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T13:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1370842"},"modified":"2022-03-11T08:18:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T13:18:06","slug":"zucks-war-facebook-okays-calls-for-violence-against-russians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zucks-war-facebook-okays-calls-for-violence-against-russians\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuck&#039;s War: Facebook Okays Calls for Violence Against Russians"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fzucks-war-facebook-okays-calls-for-violence-against-russians%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1370842&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, sent an email to employees of both social media platforms informing them that calls for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers will temporarily be allowed, according to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/exclusive-facebook-instagram-temporarily-allow-calls-violence-against-russians-2022-03-10\/\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/exclusive-facebook-instagram-temporarily-allow-calls-violence-against-russians-2022-03-10\/\">Reuters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The social media company is also temporarily allowing some posts that call for death to Russian President Vladimir Putin or Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, according to internal emails to its content moderators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs 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 \u2018death to the Russian invaders.\u2019 We still won\u2019t allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians,\u201d a Meta spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_9914052\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2019\/01\/GettyImages-961424292.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives at the European (Parliament, prior to his audition on the data privacy scandal on May 22, 2018 at the European Union headquarters in Brussels. (Photo by JOHN THYS \/ AFP) (Photo credit should read JOHN THYS\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to Reuters, the email from Meta allowed calls for violence against both Russian soldiers and Russians, as long as the context of the invasion of Ukraine was clear:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe are issuing a spirit-of-the-policy allowance to allow T1 violent speech that would otherwise be removed under the Hate Speech policy when: (a) targeting Russian soldiers, EXCEPT prisoners of war, or (b) targeting Russians where it\u2019s clear that the context is the Russian invasion of Ukraine (e.g., content mentions the invasion, self-defense, etc.),\u201d it said in the email.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Russian embassy in the United States blasted the far-left Silicon Valley company in the wake of Reuters\u2019 report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsers of Facebook &#038; Instagram did not give the owners of these platforms the right to determine the criteria of truth and pit nations against each other,\u201d said the Russian embassy in a tweeted statement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u261d\ufe0fWe demand that \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 authorities stop the extremist activities of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Meta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Meta<\/a>, take measures to bring the perpetrators to justice. Users of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Facebook?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Facebook<\/a> &#038; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Instagram?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Instagram<\/a> did not give the owners of these platforms the right to determine the criteria of truth and pit nations against each other. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1RkrjRmEtA\">https:\/\/t.co\/1RkrjRmEtA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sTacSm4nDt\">pic.twitter.com\/sTacSm4nDt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Russian Embassy in USA \ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddfa (@RusEmbUSA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RusEmbUSA\/status\/1502125428655501316?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Journalist Glenn Greenwald criticized the Masters of the Universe, pointing out it should be up to Mark Zuckerberg and a small group of other tech executives to decide \u201cwhen we can advocate violence against certain people and when we can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">That&#8217;s nice. Definitely grateful that we live in a society where Mark Zuckeberg and Google executives determine when we can advocate violence against certain people and when we can&#8217;t. Seems healthy and democratic.\ud83d\udd2a\ud83d\udd2a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3QxaKuDqxB\">https:\/\/t.co\/3QxaKuDqxB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1502079894339084288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last week, Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/03\/05\/a-taste-of-their-own-medicine-russia-blacklists-facebook-twitter\/\">blocked access to Facebook and Twitter<\/a> across the country in response to those platforms restricting Russian media outlets including RT and Sputnik.<\/p>\n<p>The Intercept <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2022\/02\/24\/ukraine-facebook-azov-battalion-russia\/\">reported<\/a> in February that Facebook had rescinded its ban on discussion of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, which had previously been banned under its\u00a0Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.\u00a0He is the author of\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DELETED-Techs-Battle-Movement-Election\/dp\/154605930X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">#DELETED: Big Tech\u2019s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, sent an email to employees of both social media platforms informing them that calls for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1370842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}