Russia puts the spokesman for Meta on wanted list

Here we are sharing a piece of big news with you that Russia has added the spokesman of US technology firm Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, to a wanted list, as per the online database held by the country’s internal ministry. Since the news has come on the internet and it circulated on many social networking sites. Currently, this news has left many questions in people’s minds and now they’re also super keen to know about the whole information about the news. In this article we will give complete information about the news, so let’s continue the article.

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As per the report, Russian state agency Tass and independent news outlet Mediazona first said that Meta’s transmissions director Andy Stone was included on the list Sunday, weeks after Russian authorities in October organized Meta as a “terrorist and extremist” association, opening the way for likely criminal processing against Russian citizens using its platforms. The interior ministry’s database does not give information on the case against Stone, stating only that he is wanted on criminal charges. You are on the right page for more information about the news, so please read the complete article.

Mediazona an independent news website that covers Russia’s resistance and jail system, Stone was put on the wanted list in February 2022, but officers made no connection statements at the time and no news media was informed on the matter until this week. In March 2023, Russia’s federal Investigative Committee unlocked a criminal investigation into Meta. It reported that the firm’s actions following Moscow’s full-scale attack invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 amounted to initiating violence against Russians. Scroll down to the next page for more information about the news.

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As far as know Stone declared temporary changes to Meta’s hate speech policy after Russian troops moved into Ukraine to permit “forms of political declaration that would normally violate (its) rules, like violent speech such as death to the Russian invaders”. In the same statement, Stone also said that “reasonable calls for violence against Russian civilians” would remain excluded. On Sunday, Mediazona asserted that an unknown Russian court issued an arrest warrant prematurely this month for Stone on change of “facilitating terrorism”. The report did not specify the source of that information, which could not be independently confirmed. Here we have shared all the information that we had. Stay tuned to us for more updates.

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