By Tyler Durden
The United Nations (UN) criticized Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms Inc. for abruptly changing their hate speech policy and allowing calls for violence against Russia. The UN is now in agreeance with Russia that Meta’s policy change is dangerous.
On Friday, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said, “I can tell you, from our standpoint, we stand clearly against all hate speech, all calls for violence. That kind of language is just unacceptable, from whichever quarter it comes from.”
The UN’s condemnation of Meta comes after they greenlighted Facebook users to praise Ukraine’s openly neo-nazi military unit while allowing calls for violence against ‘Russians and Russian soldiers’ when discussing the Ukraine invasion. The temporary change has allowed people living in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, and Russia to unleash as much hate speech as possible against Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russia indicated it would ban Instagram across the country on March 14…
