{"id":39284,"date":"2022-03-10T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=39284"},"modified":"2022-03-10T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T00:27:00","slug":"facebook-oks-calls-for-violence-against-russians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/10\/facebook-oks-calls-for-violence-against-russians\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook OKs Calls for Violence Against Russians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone following social media’s “Community Standards” knows how selectively they are enforced. Your humble writer was permanently banned from Twitter in 2019 for using a word to describe Sean Hannity’s mental slowness that is otherwise used perhaps millions of times per day by others with full impunity. Likewise, calls for violence against Sen. Rand Paul are also made routinely with impunity<\/a>, in direct violation of the stated “Community Standards.”<\/p>\n

But even the hypocrisy and cynicism we have seen to this point by Big Social Media does not prepare one for a shocking development today, as first reported by Reuters<\/a> and then picked up by the Washington Post<\/a>: Facebook (and Facebook-owned Instagram) have “updated” their “Community Standards” guidelines and will now allow calls for violence<\/em><\/strong> against Russians.<\/p>\n

Yes that’s right. Russians – not the Russian government or the Russian economy, or even top Russian political figures but just plain old Russians – are now subject to new guidelines that ALLOW rather than forbid “Hate Speech” and even actual calls for violence<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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EXCLUSIVE Facebook and Instagram to temporarily allow calls for violence against Russians https:\/\/t.co\/dhcObdoDk6<\/a>pic.twitter.com\/QVokunNzyx<\/a><\/p>\n

— Reuters (@Reuters) March 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n