![]() ![]() "Users of Facebook & Instagram did not give the owners of these platforms the right to determine the criteria of truth and pit nations against each other," the embassy said on Twitter in a message that was also shared by their India office. The calls for the leaders' deaths will be allowed unless they contain other targets or have two indicators of credibility, such as the location or method, one email said, in a recent change to the company's rules on violence and incitement.Ĭiting the Reuters story, Russia's embassy in the United States demanded that Washington stop the "extremist activities" of Meta. "As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine we have temporarily made allowances for forms of political expression that would normally violate our rules like violent speech such as 'death to the Russian invaders.' We still won't allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians," a Meta spokesperson said in a statement. The social media company is also temporarily allowing some posts that call for death to Russian President Vladimir Putin or Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, according to internal emails to its content moderators. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.March 10 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (FB.O) will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion, according to internal emails seen by Reuters on Thursday, in a temporary change to its hate speech policy. ![]() This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. SIEGEL: It turns out if you can't trust a small group of humans not to make errors of judgment, you definitely can't trust a billion people.Ĭopyright © 2016 NPR. And you know, within a day or two, we see, no, that's not actually solving the problem. SHAHANI: Basically Facebook was hoping that algorithms are going to do more. All it takes for a story to hit the trending list is enough people sharing it with their friends. The company fired its human news curators and publicly announced that algorithms, computer code would be finding and posting the hot topics of the day - no more news curators, no more bias. This past Friday, Facebook made the switch. SHAPIRO: So how do you eliminate bias from a list of the biggest news stories of the day? Leave it up to computers. Facebook wants to be everyone's social network. So basically it became a huge political issue, and for Facebook as a business, it's an issue because Facebook is not trying to be the platform for just one political party or the other. SHAHANI: But that got members of Congress very upset. SIEGEL: Now, how could a fictitious article from a sketchy web site make its way to such a prominent place on people's Facebook feeds? Well, back in May, Facebook was accused of suppressing conservative news media in its trending feeds. SHAPIRO: And that she had been fired from Fox News for it. ![]() NPR's Aarti Shahani says users who clicked on her name saw this news story.ĪARTI SHAHANI, BYLINE: Fox News commentator Megan Kelly is a Hillary Clinton supporter. Over the weekend, one of those names was Fox News host Megyn Kelly. Click on the name, and you're led to a page full of news stories and Facebook posts about it. In their place, there are now just names - names of celebrities, new tech gadgets, viral videos. Gone are these succinct summaries of news articles chosen and written by humans and weighted towards traditional outlets like The New York Times, the BBC. If you've been on Facebook in the last few days, you might have noticed the trending news section has changed. ![]()
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