Meta, the tech giant that controls the Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram social media platforms, said that it has restricted access to Russian state media within the European Union. The moves are in…
“We have received requests from a number of governments and the European Union to take further steps in relation to Russian state-controlled media. Given the exceptional nature of the current situation, we will be restricting access to RT and Sputnik across the EU at this time,” Meta said in a statement on Monday evening.
In a statement, Microsoft said: “We are removing RT news apps from our Windows app store and further de-ranking these sites’ search results on Bing so that it will only return RT and Sputnik links when a user clearly intends to navigate to those pages.” The moves are tricky for the platforms. They do not wish to fall foul of laws or new sanctions by carrying banned or dangerous content. But by complying with and anticipating new EU and U.S. regulations they risk retaliatory actions by Russia. This may already be happening.and accused the company of human rights abuse by blocking government media.
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