Russia mentioned that Meta Platform’s Facebook was being blocked for proscribing state-backed channels.
In an announcement posted on Twitter, Meta’s head of worldwide affairs Nick Clegg mentioned the corporate would proceed to do every thing it may to revive its companies, it learn partially (quote):
“Quickly thousands and thousands of bizarre Russian will discover themselves reduce off from dependable info, disadvantaged of their on a regular basis methods of connecting with household and buddies and silenced from talking out,”
On the Russian authorities’s determination to dam entry to Fb within the Russian Federation: pic.twitter.com/JlJwIu1t9K
— Nick Clegg (@nickclegg) March 4, 2022
Tass information company reported on Friday that Russia has additionally restricted entry to Twitter.
Russia has made a number of strikes to crack down on overseas information media in latest days.
It additionally blocked websites of the BBC, Deutsche Welle and Voice of America for what it mentioned was false details about the conflict in Ukraine.
On Friday, the BBC mentioned it could quickly droop its work in Russia after introduction of a brand new regulation that would jail anybody discovered to be deliberately spreading “pretend” information.
© Thomson Reuters 2022
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