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Meta Announces Ban on Russian State Media, Citing Deceptive Influence Operations
U.S. tech giant Meta has announced a ban on Russian state media from its platforms that include Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp.
“After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets: Rossiya Segodnya, RT and other related entities are now banned from our apps globally for foreign interference activity,” Meta said in a statement. The move to bar Russian state media comes just days after the U.S. government announced sanctions on RT’s parent companies, Rossiya Segodnya and TV-Novosti. They are engaged in covert influence activities aimed at undermining American elections and democracies, functioning like a de facto arm of Russia ’s intelligence apparatus,” said Blinken.
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