Facebook owner MetaΒ (META.O),Β said on Monday it was banning RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other Russian state media networks from its platforms, claiming the outlets had used deceptive tactics to carry out covert influence operations online.
The ban, strongly criticised by the Kremlin, marks a sharp escalation in measures by the world’s biggest social media company against Russian state media, after years of more limited steps such as blocking the outlets from running ads and reducing the reach of their posts.
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People whom Washington depicts as shrewd Russian spies cannot be silenced online, the outlet joked
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US Big Tech cannot stop RT from making its voice heard, the Russian news outlet said on Tuesday, following Metaβs decision to ban it from its platforms.
On Monday, the company behind Facebook and Instagram announced that it would remove several news networks, including RT, from its applications over the coming days. It cited their purported βforeign interference activityβ to justify the move, aligning with allegations made last week by the US government.
