Meta spokesman gets 6-year prison sentence by Russian court after being convicted in absentia

A court in Russia on Monday convicted a Meta spokesperson of justifying terrorism and sentenced him to six years in prison in a swift trial in absentia, Russia’s independent news site Mediazona reported.According to the outlet, the charges against Meta communications director Andy Stone stem from his remarks in 2022 following Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 of that year. Stone, who is based in the US, announced temporary changes to Meta’s hate speech policy to allow for “forms of politica ...