A firm response from the social network, while the invasion of Ukraine was the occasion for an outbreak of false information on the Internet, a phenomenon that has become recurrent with each outbreak of war or conflict. On Friday, Facebook said it had blocked Russian state media from making money on its platform as Moscow’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine reached the streets of the capital Kiev.
“We now prohibit Russian state media from running ads or monetizing on our platform anywhere in the world,” Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of security policy, said on Twitter, adding that the move was on the verge. to be implemented.
“The Russian authorities ordered us to stop fact-checking”
Facebook’s parent company Meta said earlier on Friday that Russia had decided to “limit access” and “slow down” Facebook’s operation. Moscow accuses the American social network of censoring Russian media and violating human rights and Russian citizens.
“Yesterday, Russian authorities ordered us to halt fact-checking and reporting of content posted by four Russian state-controlled media outlets,” Meta Vice President Nick Clegg wrote in a statement. “We refused. As a result, they announced that they would restrict access to our services”.
Ditto on the side of Twitter where the war also has consequences in Russia. The platform’s official account announced that it had found restrictions targeting Russian Internet users. Twitter has already been targeted in the spring of 2021 by forced connection slowdowns, at the initiative of the Russian authorities. She had also been threatened with total blockage in the country.