Russia is obstructing Facebook in its nation in keeping with its communications regulator on Friday.

Russia stated that Meta Platform’s Facebook was being blocked for proscribing state-backed channels.

In an announcement posted on Twitter, Meta’s head of world affairs Nick Clegg stated the corporate would proceed to do every little thing it might to revive its providers, it learn partly (quote):

“Soon millions of ordinary Russian will find themselves cut off from reliable information, deprived of their everyday ways of connecting with family and friends and silenced from speaking out,”

On the Russian authorities’s determination to dam entry to Facebook 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 international information media in current days.

It additionally blocked web sites of the BBC, Deutsche Welle and Voice of America for what it stated was false details about the battle in Ukraine.

On Friday, the BBC stated it could quickly droop its work in Russia after introduction of a brand new legislation that might jail anybody discovered to be deliberately spreading “fake” information.

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