{"id":89661,"date":"2021-03-23T15:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/mar\/23\/facebook-leak-underscore-strategy-operate-repressive-regimes"},"modified":"2021-03-23T15:00:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T15:00:36","slug":"facebook-leak-underscores-strategy-to-operate-in-repressive-regimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/03\/23\/facebook-leak-underscores-strategy-to-operate-in-repressive-regimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook leak underscores strategy to operate in repressive regimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> users are allowed to praise mass killers and \u2018violent non-state actors\u2019 in certain situations<br><\/p><p>Facebook users are permitted to praise mass murderers and \u201cviolent non-state actors\u201d in certain situations, according to internal guidelines that underline how the tech corporation is striving to operate in repressive regimes.<\/p><p>The leak also reveals that Facebook maintains a list of \u201crecognised crimes\u201d and instructs its moderators to distinguish between those and \u201ccrimes not recognised by FB\u201d when applying the company\u2019s rules.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/mar\/23\/facebook-guidelines-allow-for-users-to-call-for-death-of-public-figures\">Facebook guidelines allow for users to call for death of public figures<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/mar\/23\/facebook-leak-underscore-strategy-operate-repressive-regimes\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/mar\/23\/facebook-leak-underscore-strategy-operate-repressive-regimes\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: users are allowed to praise mass killers and \u2018violent non-state actors\u2019 in certain situationsFacebook users are permitted to praise mass murderers and \u201cviolent non-state actors\u201d in certain situations, according to internal guidelines that un&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3422,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[725,1311,6,640,4260,94,7747,369,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3422"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89844,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89661\/revisions\/89844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}