Russia’s ban on Facebook, Instagram remains despite Meta’s distancing of self from hate speech scandal, Kremlin says

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Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov attends a plenary session as part of the 16th Russia-Kazakhstan Interregional Cooperation Forum at the Congress Hall. OMSK, RUSSIA - NOVEMBER 7, 2019. Mikhail Metzel/TASS.

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Dmitry Peskov pointed out that the company “indirectly admits that we are talking about such decisions when it says that on the territory of Ukraine such methods are allowed, yet somewhere else it is still inadmissible”

Meta company, owners Facebook and Instagram currently blocked from operating in Russia, has tried to distance itself from the launched hate speech and incitement of violence against Russia and its citizens in western nations but Kremlin says his denial of responsibility for such heinous activities is unlikely to secure the return of its banned products in the country.

Amidst United States-led antagonistic campaigns, which it Biden believed was best way to stop Moscow from furthering what is known in western societies as invasion but called special military operations by Russia, the American social networks were loudly reported to have called for people around nations loyal to America to make call and send hate messages saying because what Russia was doing in Ukraine has fallen under their rules, which allow those actions be allowed.

TASS, Russian News Agency report particularly said of Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov that the return of Meta products (in particular, of such social networks as Facebook and Instagram, now blocked in Russia) is unlikely for now, although the company is trying to distance itself from the mistakes it has made.

“It is unlikely for now, although the company is trying somehow to distance itself from the very unpleasant mistakes it made earlier,” Peskov said, commenting on Meta’s earlier statement that the company was lifting the ban on posting information that promotes incitement to violence against Russian citizens, including servicemen, on its social networks.

The company then clarified that such a rule applied only in Ukraine, and that Meta was generally against Russophobia.

Peskov pointed out that the company “indirectly admits that we are talking about such decisions when it says that on the territory of Ukraine such methods are allowed, yet somewhere else it is still inadmissible.

“That is, the company in this case tinkered with the rules a little bit, manipulating everyone. And this hardly makes it possible for such companies to work on Russian soil,” the Kremlin spokesman concluded.


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