By Russia has restricted Facebook owned by Tech giant Meta on March 4, stating that the platform is oppressing Russian channels.
The country’s media controller Roskomnadzor said that they had noticed 26 instances of victimization by Russian state-supported channels like RT and the RIA news organization since October 2020, which they consider an infringement of Russian’s rights and freedom.
Consequently, Meta’s head of global affairs, Nick Clegg, said the organization would keep on doing all that it could in restoring the services.
Russia has also limited admittance to Twitter. Several news agencies complained the platform is not accessible. Twitter Inc didn’t promptly answer the concerned issue.
Furthermore, tech organizations like Alphabet Inc’s Google have additionally stopped their services in Russia in the midst of developing censorship requests.
Significant tech organizations have confronted pressure in response to the Feb. 24 intrusion, which has prompted monetary assents against Moscow by states all over the globe. Russian state-run media has arisen as a critical flashpoint among Moscow and media platforms during the conflict.
Meta this week said it had limited access to RT and Sputnik across the European Union and was worldwide downgrading content from Russian state-controlled outlets’ Facebook pages and Instagram accounts, as well as links containing joins on those outlets on Facebook.
Last week, Moscow to some degree restricted Facebook access after the organization rejected the Russian government’s solicitation to stop the independent fact-checking of several Russian state news sources.
