<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nAccording to the report, the Azov regiment – which functions as an armed wing of the broader Ukrainian white nationalist Azov movement – is classified as a “Tier 1” dangerous organization under FB policy, alongside the likes of ISIS and the KKK. <\/strong>It began as a volunteer anti-Russia militia before officially joining the Ukrainian National Guard in 2014<\/strong>, and is known for its hardcore ultranationalist views and neo-Nazi ideology.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe group was formally banned by Facebook in 2019, and designated (along with several individuals) under the company’s prohibition against hate groups – subject to their harshest “Tier 1” restrictions that ban users from “praise, support, or representation” of blacklisted groups across all company-owned platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is unclear what liability Facebook will face if as a result of its hate speech policy changes, other Russians besides the “targeted” ones, end up killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n <\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyler Durden – Friday, Mar 11, 2022 – 09:40 AM Two weeks after Facebook users were given the green light to praise Ukraine’s openly neo-nazi military unit, the Azov Batallion, the Meta formerly known as Facebook will allow posts on Facebook and Instagram, from a handful of countries, calling for violence against ‘Russians and Russian… Read More »Facebook, Instagram To Allow Calls For Violence Against Russians Over Ukraine Invasion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,115,7,126,214,517],"tags":[207,6090,129,131,176,6129,1332,6132,6133,5931,4425,6076,6128,3051,5578,4052,664,5696,6130,1375,1946,6131,168,3669,1947],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/violence4.jpg?fit=640%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22526,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22522\/revisions\/22526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}