"Kiev is part of Russia": Facebook blocked the Ukrainian because of a scandalous mistake

The social network forbade the Ukrainian user Svyatoslav Stepanenko to place advertising, deciding that he is in Russia. Mark Zuckerberg Meta, the capital of Ukraine, said that the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, is located in Russia. The e -mail with this content was received by Ukrainian Svyatoslav Stepanenko, who turned to technical support for the social network Facebook for help. The man said that he faced the problem when he wanted to place the advertisement.

In response, he received information from the server that he is in the territory of the Russian Federation. And Russians cannot advertise their products and services on Facebook. Stepanenko wrote in the technical support of the social network with a request to help in the situation. He was convinced that there was a mistake, because in the geolocation settings the man chose "Kiev". The Meta employee read a Ukrainian message and advised him to change the time train.

When the user wondered why to do it, the technical specialist explained that on the social network it is impossible to publish advertising from Russia, part of which he called Kiev. "Your advertising profile has been disconnected because the advertising profile is installed Kiev, which is part of Russia. I strongly recommend that you change the time zone," the husband wrote in response.

Stepanenko made a correspondence screen and posted a new post on his Facebook page in which he asked other social network users to help make this story public. In the comments to the post published by a man, some Ukrainians suggested that he could be mistaken with geolocation. After all, in Russia in the Perm region is a village called "Kiev". For his part, Stepanenko replied that he chose the capital of Ukraine, which is located in the temporal zone GMT+3.

While the Russian village is located in the GMT+5 time zone. Moreover, the village of Kiev (historical name-Goremikino) in the Kosinsky district of the Perm region was liquidated in 2008, since in the early 2000s it lived only one resident. Now the former village is part of the Levichansky rural settlement. We will remind, in February 2023, Ilon Musk was in a scandal through the Russian-Ukrainian war.

On February 9, SpaceX Director Guvin Schotwell reported that the company decided to limit the use of Starlink Satellite Internet for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In addition, in October 2021, Apple got into the scandal. She published a map of Ukraine without Crimea. A map of Ukraine appeared in the application for Apple Music for Artists, on which Crimea was depicted in Russian territory, and on the map of Russia - on the contrary.