There are also meta among the organizations that are officially considered by the Russia as “terrorists and extremists”. As reported by the Interfax agency, the decision was made by the Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service, which would note the disruption of all services provided by Meta Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp in Russia. As the news agency Ria Novosti reconstructs, the Silicon Valley giant is accused of discriminating against Russians and censoring some newspapers close to it Kremlin, such as Sputnik and Russia Today. The company tried to defend itself by assuring that Meta “does not condone Russophobia”. But already last March To fly had blocked access to Facebook. In April, it was the Russian Prosecutor General who asked for Meta to be classified as a “terrorist organization”.
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