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Roskomnadzor also ordered that Facebook be blocked for its "discrimination toward Russian media", in retaliation for restricting the accessibility of pages for Russian state media outlets such as Russia Today. [70] [71] Twitter launched an onion service in response. [72] Helsingin Sanomat [73] Ilta-Sanomat [73]
The blocking of Meta Platforms in Russia is the process of blocking access and subsequent banning of Meta Platforms' social networks in Russia due to allowing Facebook and Instagram users to wish the death of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, as well as to call for violence against Russian servicemen participating in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Apple removed VK, Russia's biggest social media platform, from the App Store. Apple said this was in response to new UK sanctions. Apple users can no longer download the VK app, although it will ...
Russia's press agencies (including the most important Ria-Novosti and Itar-Tass) were also well represented in the Web. [31] In April 2008 Agence France-Presse noted that, "The Internet is the freest area of the media in Russia, where almost all television and many newspapers are under formal or unofficial government control". [35]
Meta said it's banning Russia state media organization from its social media platforms, alleging that the outlets used deceptive tactics to amplify Moscow's propaganda. The announcement drew a ...
A Russian court on Tuesday (September 14) said it had fined U.S. social media giants Facebook and Twitter for failing to delete content that Moscow deems illegal.The move forms part of a wider ...
On 13 April 2018 Moscow's Tagansky District Court ruled, with immediate effect, on restricting access to Telegram in Russia . [8] [9] Telegram's appeal to the Russian Supreme Court was rejected. [10] In April 2020, the Government of Russia started using the blocked Telegram platform to spread information related to COVID-19 outbreak.
Wednesday's disruption to the messaging apps, which are widely popular in Russia, came weeks after Russian internet monitoring services reported a mass outage on the availability of video hosting ...