Meta President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg wrote in an internal post on Sunday that the company is narrowing its focus to make clear that it is never to be construed as condoning violence against Russians in general.
In the post, which was first reported by Bloomberg on Sunday, it was stated that calls to assassinate a head of state were not allowed.
The contents of the post were confirmed by Meta.
The rationale for the easing of Meta's hate speech policy was explained on Friday.
He wrote that the policies were focused on protecting people's rights to speech as an expression of self-defense.
If we did not make any changes to our content policies, we would be removing content from ordinary Ukrainians, which would be viewed as unacceptable.
To be clear, we are only going to apply this policy in Ukraine. We don't have a problem with the Russians. The policies on hate speech are the same as always. We will not tolerate discrimination, harassment or violence towards Russians on our platform.
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