Twitter hits Russia. The website will not recommend accounts belonging to the Russian government

Accounts operated by the Russian government will no longer be “strengthened or recommended to people on Twitter, including Home Timeline, Explore, Search and other places on the site,” said the US social network on Tuesday. The decision will hit more than 300 Russian government accounts.

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Twitter restricts the visibility of Russian government accounts

Twitter has adopted a new policy to ensure the free flow of information. The website will not endorse or recommend accounts on its platform run by governments “involved in an armed interstate conflict” that also restrict the flow of information. Twitter’s new policy has been embraced for its invasion and “drastically reduces the likelihood of people on Twitter seeing tweets from these accounts.”

Attempts by states to restrict or block access to free information within their borders are extremely harmful and run counter to Twitter’s beliefs about conducting healthy and open public discussions. We are committed to a fairer treatment of global conflict talks and we will continue to evaluate whether this principle can be applied in other contexts, apart from interstate armed conflicts

– we read on the Twitter blog.

Recall that on March 4, Russia limited access to, inter alia, to Twitter in connection with the law prohibiting the dissemination of “false information” (the point is to prevent information about the war that Russia unleashed in Ukraine from reaching the Russians). Twitter then launched a new version of the website to bypass surveillance and censorship in Russia.

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Twitter will test the new “edit” button

Twitter also announced that it is working on the ability to edit previously published posts. The new “edit” button will be tested on Twitter Blue Labs in the coming months, said Jay Sullivan, vice president, Consumer Products on April 5. He stressed that the ability to edit entries “has been Twitter’s most requested feature for many years.”

This is confirmed by the latest survey created by Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and the largest shareholder of Twitter (the billionaire bought 9.2% of the company’s shares). Musk asked users if they wanted an “edit” button. Over 73 percent people chose the answer “yes”. Over 4.4 million people have participated in the survey so far.