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Ukraine Asks Zuckerberg to Discipline Kremlin Facebook Bots

Posted by samzenpus on from the bot-breaker dept.

mi writes "Ukrainian media is reporting (link in Ukrainian), that Facebook is getting increasingly heavy-handed blocking Ukrainian bloggers. The likely explanation for the observed phenomenon is that Facebook's Ukrainian office is located in Russia and is headed by a Russian citizen (Catherine Skorobogatov). For example, a post calling on Russian mothers to not let their sons go to war was blocked "Due to multiple complaints". Fed up, Ukrainian users are writing directly to Zukerberg to ask him to replace Catherine with someone, who would not be quite as swayed by the "complaints" generated by Russian bots.

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  1. Re:Rules of war by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Get a perspective or something.

    When the "local militias" chose to take over Donetsk International Airport in June, and were ousted by Ukrainian marines, the coffins were sent mostly to Russia and Chechnia. Yeah right, locals took up arms to defend themselves.

    Yes, there are some locals fighting. They are not the most agressive, and their numbers are dropping. There is scarecely any equipment seized by locals left. Nearly all of the heavy equipment has been deliberately supplied by Russian state.

  2. Re:Wait.... what? by QuietLagoon · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...Why should FB care whether Ukraine or Russia is winning the media war?...

    I hate to be the one to break it to you, but Russia and Ukraine are engaged in a little bit more than a media war.

    .
    Last I checked, Russia was invading eastern Ukraine.

    I suspect that may bode poorly for a FB office in Russia to properly handle Ukrainian Facebook business.