Parent company Meta will allow Facebook and Instagram users to post messages against Russians and Russian and Belarusian presidents Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko. A temporary change in the company's policy on hostile statements in publications is related to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Independent reported.

Users from Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania will be able to publish relevant messages.

The emails to moderators state that calls for violence against Russia are acceptable if the publication clearly refers to the invasion of Ukraine. Posts about the deaths of Russian and Belarusian leaders will be blocked if they make two assumptions about the credibility of the threats - such as location and method, or other targets.

Calls for violence against the Russian military will be treated as permissible, with the exception of POWs. Meta will also allow praise of the Azov battalion, which is normally forbidden.

According to spokesman Joe Osborne, they are making an exception "in the context of their defense of Ukraine as part of the Ukrainian National Guard."

"We have temporarily made an exception for forms of political expression that would normally violate our rules, such as violent speech," Meta spokesman Andy Stone told CNN.

At the same time, the company will still not allow calls for violence against Russian civilians.

Cloud platform Amazon Web Services banned new customers from Russia and Belarus because of the war in Ukraine.