Russia officially blocked access to Facebook marking the latest crackdown against social media platforms and independent media outlets in the country since the outbreak of war in Ukraine.
In a statement explaining its decision on Friday, Roskomnadzor, the Russian media watchdog said, Facebook, owned by Meta, was discriminating against Russian state-run and state-funded media by placing restrictions on the accounts of outlets such as Russia Today and the Russian military TV channel Zvezda.
“Since October 2020, there have been 26 cases of discrimination against Russian media and information resources by Facebook,” the state censorship body said.
Following the decision, Nick Clegg, Facebook’s president of global affairs, said “soon millions of ordinary Russians will find themselves cut off from reliable information, deprived of their everyday ways of connecting with family and friends and silenced from speaking out.”
He added that the company would do “everything we can to restore our services” to allow users to express themselves and “organise for a
In the past year, Russia has regularly wielded the threat of penalties such as fines and slowing or shutting access to social media platforms, to get them to restore or restrict content. It has issued Facebook numerous fines in recent months.
But restrictions have intensified sharply since the Ukraine war began last month. Big Tech has increasingly been dragged into the information battle that has raged following Russian president Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine.
Roskomnadzor has also shut down major local liberal outlets such as Echo of Moscow and TV Rain, while others like the BBC have had their websites blocked.
Meta-owned Facebook, as well as Google’s YouTube, Twitter, Apple and TikTok all announced this week that they would remove RT and Sputnik from their platforms in the EU.
Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have also been applying labels to Kremlin-backed media for users outside of the EU, and paused the ability for the outlets to make money from advertising that runs alongside their content.
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2022-03-04 18:32:59Z
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