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The Daily BeastApr 18, 2024
Russian Court Holds Nutso ‘Terrorism' Trial to Rage Against Meta Press Secretary
AFP via Getty Images A Russian military court convened on Thursday to rage against the press secretary of Facebook's parent company over a tweet posted more than two years ago.

Andy Stone, the press secretary of Meta, was not present in the Moscow District Military Court. Andy Stone will probably never be present in a Russian court.

But that did not stop a high-profile prosecutor from trying to call up a witness to make the Kremlin's case that Stone is guilty of "justifying terrorism" for announcing back in March 2022 that Facebook and Instagram users could write "death to the Russian invaders" as much as they pleased. (Stone made clear at the time, at the height of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, that calls for violence against Russian civilians would not be tolerated.)

Read more at The Daily Beast.


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