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Russia has added Meta, formerly known as Facebook, to its list of terrorist and extremist organizations.
Russia says the tech giant is allowing Ukrainians to call for violence against Russia, but similar threats from Russia are banned.
Some people on the left-wing social platform are threatening the death of Russian President Vladimir Putin as well as Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
The war in Ukraine has reportedly caused internal problems at Facebook over confusion about the type of content allowed.
Normally, content is banned that promotes violence. If the violence is directed at Russia, then it seems the content is suddenly allowed.
More on this story via Breitbart:
The company’s internal moderation teams were left in utter chaos by confusing and conflicting rules about what content was permitted on the platform.
As Breitbart News reporter Lucas Nolan wrote in March:
Facebook reportedly suspended some quality controls that ensure posts from users in countries like Russia and Ukraine meet its rules. The company temporarily stopped tracking whether its workers were accurately enforcing its content guidelines, according to sources with knowledge of the matter.
The suspension in enforcement was reportedly due to the workers being unable to keep up with the constantly changing rules about what sort of posts about the war in Ukraine were allowed across the platforms. Since Russia invaded Ukraine last month, Facebook has reportedly made more than half a dozen content policy revisions.
Facebook has allowed a number of posts about the conflict that would usually violate the platform’s terms of service, including calls for the death of President Vladamir Putin of Russia. This has resulted in internal confusion among content moderators. Mark Zuckerberg eventually walked back allowing for calls for violence against Putin, although users were still free to call for the death of Russians.
