According to Meduza, the Russian prosecutor’s office has applied for recognition of Facebook as an extremist organization. Officers explained before the court that the Meta company did not remove from the Internet entries in which Internet users wished the death of Russian soldiers and Aleksander Lukashenka.
Facebook and Instagram on the list of extremist organizations
This is not the first time that the Russian government has tried to fight against organizations that are unfavorable to it. Last year, a Moscow court recognized the Foundation for Combating Corruption, which he headed, as an extremist organization.
A few months later, the Investigative Committee began to institute criminal proceedings against the foundation’s employees and people directly related to it. Some Russian human rights defenders fear that a similar repression may affect users of social networks banned in Russia.
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Instagram and Facebook banned in Russia. What’s next?
Most likely, many will still want to use popular social networking sites. This can be made possible by them (Virtual Private Network), i.e. a virtual private network that can hide the user’s location and encrypt data. Earlier, when applications were temporarily disabled, demand in Russia for VPNs increased by as much as 2,088 percent from the average daily demand in mid-February.
Interestingly, the court removed the restrictions from the WhatsApp messenger, which also belongs to.
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Source: Gazeta
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