Meta clarifies policy on calls for assassinating heads of state The US tech giant is also scrambling to make it clear that advocating violence against ‘Russians in general’ is off limits Meta clarifies policy on calls for assassinating heads of state Facebook’s parent company Meta has changed its policy guidance on tolerance to hate speech to prohibit “condoning violence” against “Russians in general” and to ban calls for the death of heads of state, Reuters reported on Monday, citing a memo posted on the company’s internal platform. The Sunday post, published by Meta’s global affairs president, Nick Clegg, and seen by Reuters, suggests that Facebook is “narrowing the focus” of its content moderation policy to make it “explicitly clear” that a previous decisions made last week should not be interpreted as “condoning violence against Russians in general.” Last Thursday, Reuters was also the first to report that Meta would begin allowing hate speech against Russians on Facebook and ...
