The Morning After: Russia, Ukraine and social media | Engadget

Facebook has pulled a community of pretend accounts trying to unfold Russian disinformation in Ukraine. The firm mentioned it had eliminated about 40 accounts, pages and teams from Facebook and Instagram that had been detected over the past 48 hours. 

Meanwhile, Russia has been entry for its residents since early Saturday morning. According to web monitor NetBlocks, there was an almost full blackout of the platform throughout all main home telecom suppliers. On Friday, the nation’s telecom regulator, Roskomnadzor, started entry to Facebook after the social community refused to cease reality checking and labeling content material from Russia’s state-owned information organizations.

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