Russia will suspend its activity Meta Platforms If the information provided by Reuters, according to which the platform will allow its users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers, turns out to be true, the Kremlin warned today.
According to internal messages that came to the knowledge of the Reuters news agency yesterday Thursday, Meta Platforms decided to allow users of the Facebook and Instagram sites in several countries to make posts calling for violence against the Russians, especially the Russian military, temporarily removing the prohibition of hate speech provided for in the rules of their use.
“We do not want to believe the Reuters report, it’s just hard to believe,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peshkov.
“We hope it is not true, because if it is, then it means that the most decisive measures must be taken to suspend the activities of this company,” he added.
The change in the rules of use of the websites was confirmed to AFP by Andy Stone, Meta representative. “Because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we show leniency in forms of political expression that normally violate our regulations on incitement to violence, such as ‘death to the Russian invaders,'” he said, adding that “we continue to disapprove violence against Russian citizens. “
This policy change concerns Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine.
Mercenaries and “real Russians”
The Kremlin also said today that Syrian citizens could go to war as volunteers against Ukrainian forces.
“Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has stated that” mainly those who want it, those who have asked (to go to war) are citizens of the Middle East, Syrians, “Peshkov said.
Earlier in the day, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the Russian military to facilitate the deployment of “volunteer” fighters to Ukraine in response to what he said was a “mercenary” mission from the West.
“If you see that there are people who want to go there voluntarily and do it not for money, but to help those living in Donbas (in eastern Ukraine), then we should give them what they want and help them go. “In the battle zone,” Putin said.
“If the Western world is so enthusiastic about the arrival of various mercenaries (in Ukraine), then our side also has volunteers who want to participate,” the Kremlin spokesman added.
Peshkov, meanwhile, said the Russians who said they were ashamed of Moscow’s “special military operation” against Ukraine were not real Russians.
“A real Russian is never ashamed of being Russian,” the Kremlin spokesman said when asked about the “I am ashamed to be Russian” slogan, which has been heard at home and abroad by people opposed to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“If anyone says such things, then he is simply not Russian,” said Peshkov, who described anti-Russian sentiment as “dangerously sharpened” in the West and hoped that Western leaders would stop inciting Russophobia.
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