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2022: Facebook and Instagram allow calls for violence against Russians

Facebook and Instagram will temporarily allow calls for violence against Russians and the Russian military, Reuters writes on March 10, 2022, citing internal emails to content moderators.

Platforms against the backdrop of Russia's special operation in Ukraine have temporarily changed the policy against incitement to hatred. The e-mail says that calls for violence against Russians are allowed when posts clearly say "about the invasion of Ukraine."

The company also temporarily permits posts calling for the death of Russian President Vladimir Putin or Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in countries such as Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Russia and Ukraine. It is specified that posts should not contain instructions of the place or method.

2021: Receiving a revolving fine in Russia for non-removal of content

Meta (formerly Facebook), following Google, received a billion-dollar negotiable fine in Russia for re-failing prohibited information. The court fined the company almost 2 billion rubles. This became known on December 24, 2021.

The court found Meta guilty under Part 5 of Article 13.41 of the Administrative Code (repeated violation of the procedure for restricting access to content prohibited in Russia). The article involves a fine of 5-10% of the company's revenue in Russia for 2020. The court calculated its amount according to the data on the annual revenue of Meta in the country, which are reflected in the tax accounting data, the source of Interfax specified.

Facebook in Russia had previously been fined a total of 83 million rubles, of which 26 million rubles were paid, Alexander Khinshtein, head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technology and Communications, told the agency. He clarified that he announced the amount of decisions that have already entered into force.

Roskomnadzor explained that the companies ignored the requirements of the department regarding materials that are forbidden to be distributed in Russia. The Office noted that the materials referred to in the protocols are only a small part of the content array that violates the law. Roskomnadzor threatened companies with new revolving fines if they did not solve this issue^[1].

2020: 22.5 million records with the language of hostility were deleted for the 2nd quarter

Facebook in the second quarter of 2020, he deleted 22.5 million records with the language of hostility. In more than 90% of cases, such content is even found and marked before complaints. robots

2019

8 Prohibited Content Categories

Content that Facebook is actively trying to hide can be divided into eight categories as of August 2019:

• violence,
• nudity and sexual activity of adults,
• propaganda of terrorism,
• incitement to hatred,
• bullying and harassment,
• sexual exploitation of children,
• Regulated goods (drugs and firearms) and
• spam.

Most common Facebook rule violations

Facebook is removing more and more hate messages from its network. The question of whether Facebook finds more posts or simply posts more hate speech on the network is to be discussed.

Over the past decade, Facebook has added 15,000 content moderators to its workforce.

How Facebook sells weapons

In mid-August 2019, The Wall Street Journal published an article on the sale of used firearms on Facebook Marketplace. Although Facebook prohibits the sale of weapons on the platform, including firearms, pneumatic and even paintball, sellers use a simple trick - they place offers to sell weapons cases. More details here.

Facebook fined 2 million euros in Germany for underestimating the number of users for illegal content

Facebook was fined 2 million euros in Germany for violating the law on the protection of the Network when publishing a report on working with illegal content in 2018. Company standards should not be "higher than German law," said the German Federal Department of Justice. User complaints about illegal content should be considered in accordance with the law on network protection, the department said.

The company received a fine for underestimating the number of complaints about illegal content, this created a distorted picture of the extent of illegal content and how the social network reacted. In addition, it is difficult for users to find a form of appeal for complaints on the Facebook website, RBC writes in July 2019 .

The law on the protection of the Network was adopted in Germany in 2017, according to the document, social networks are required to remove posts calling for hatred and propaganda of terrorism within 24 hours.