Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc.'s head of global affairs Nick Clegg said the company's changes on speech in the context of Russia's invasion of Ukraine will apply only in Ukraine .
He said in a statement on Friday that the policies were "focused on protecting people's rights to speech as an expression of self-defense in reaction to a military invasion of their country."
He said the company had "no quarrel with the Russian people" and there was not a change on hate speech "as far as the Russian people are concerned." He said the changes were temporary and the situation would be kept under review.