A Moscow court has banned the social networks Facebook and Instagram after finding that their parent company, Meta, is “extremist”thus admitting a request from the Attorney General’s Office that will be applied with “immediate” effects.
The Prosecutor’s Office advocated taking action against the US company for not removing content where violence was allegedly encouraged, although the Justice has left the WhatsApp instant messaging service out of the signal and to the directors and users of the now prohibited networks.
In court, the representatives of Meta have denied the accusations of extremism and have requested the filing of the complaint, alleging that they have no physical presence on Russian territory, according to the Interfax news agency. Both Facebook and Instagram are already banned in Russia, since March 4 and 14, respectively, after the authorities have tightened the pressure on the media and it is a foreign company on the Internet to try to control information about the military offensive launched in Ukraine.
In fact, last week the regulatory body already warned Google that YouTube should stop spreading “threats” against Russian citizens, in what could be a preliminary step to future measures. “The distribution of such messages clearly demonstrates the anti-Russian position of the American company Google,” according to the note.
Source: Lasexta
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