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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.

The platforms against the background of Russia's special operation in Ukraine temporarily changed the policy against inciting hatred. The electronic correspondence says that calls for violence against Russians are allowed when the posts clearly say "about the invasion of Ukraine."

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

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

Meta Platforms, following Google, received a billion-dollar revolving fine in Russia for repeated failure to delete 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 prohibited in Russia to content). The article assumes a fine of 5-10% of the company's revenue in Russia for 2020. The court calculated its amount on to data Meta's annual revenue in, to the country which are reflected tax in the accounting data, the source said. "Interfax

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 on decisions that have already entered into force.

Roskomnadzor explained that the companies ignored the department's requirements for materials that are prohibited from being distributed in Russia. The agency 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 resolve this issue^[1].

2020: 22.5 million hate speech entries removed in Q2

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

2019

8 categories of prohibited content

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

• violence,
• adult nudity and sexual activity,
• propaganda of terrorism,
• hate speech,
• bullying and harassment,
• sexual exploitation of children,
• regulated goods (drugs and firearms) and
• spam.

Facebook's most common rule violations

Facebook is removing more and more hate messages from its network. Whether Facebook finds more posts or just more hate speech is posted online is up for debate.

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

How guns are traded on Facebook

In mid-August 2019, The Wall Street Journal published an article about the sale of used firearms on Facebook Marketplace. While Facebook prohibits the sale of weapons on the platform, including firearms, pneumatic and even paintball, sellers use a simple ruse - they post offers to sell gun cases. Read more here.

Facebook fined €2m in Germany for underreporting users of 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. The company's standards should not be "higher than German law," according to the German Federal Office of Justice. User complaints about illegal content should be considered in accordance with the law on the protection of the Web, the department said.

The company received a fine for underestimating the number of complaints about illegal content, this created a distorted picture about the scale of illegal content and how the social network reacts. 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 Web was adopted in Germany in 2017, according to the document, social networks are obliged to delete posts calling for hatred and propaganda of terrorism within 24 hours.