Russia’s Federal Communications, IT and Mass Media Service, or Roskomnadzor, has partially banned Facebook in the country. The decision comes after Facebook restricted the accounts of four Russian media outlets, namely the Zvezda TV channel, the RIA Novosti news agency, and the websites Lenta.ru and Gazeta.ru.
Russia says that this account ban violates Federal Law No. 272-FZ “On Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms of Citizens of the Russian Federation, Measures to Affect Persons Violating their Rights and Freedoms”. He also claims to have asked Meta to lift restrictions imposed on four media outlets. However, Meta seems to be ignoring this request, at least for now.
The Russian state regulator did not provide a clear explanation of what the partial restriction on social media actually meant. He also claims that Facebook has recorded 23 such cases of censorship of Russian media and internet resources and therefore decided to partially restrict access in the country.
THE PRESS WAS WARNED
On the other hand, Roskomnadzor, the Russian Federal Information Technologies and Mass Communications Supervision Agency, sent a warning that their access to a number of media outlets that wrote the Russian army’s attack on Ukraine as “invasion and declaration of war” might be restricted.
In the statement made by Roskomnadzor, it was stated that an access restriction warning was issued for news sources such as Eho Moskvy, İnoSMİ, Mediazona, New Times, Dojd, Svobodnaya Pressa, Krım.Realii, Novaya Gazeta, Jurnalist and Lenizdat on the grounds of spreading false information.
In the aforementioned sources, under the guise of reliable messages, false information is conveyed to the public about the bombing of Ukrainian cities and the death of civilians as a result of the actions of the Russian army, as well as that the ongoing operation is an attack, invasion or declaration of war. statements were included. “Roskomnadzor has also launched an administrative investigation against the listed media outlets for disseminating unsafe publicly important information,” the statement said. it was said.
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