Zuckerberg’s Meta BANS Russian State Media on ALL Platforms Following Biden Administration Sanctions
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On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg’s company Meta announced a ban on Russian state media across its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, citing concerns over “election interference.”
“After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets. Rossiya Segodnya, RT, and other related entities are now banned from our apps globally for foreign interference activity,” a spokesperson for Meta stated.
This decision follows the recent announcement from the Biden administration, which imposed new sanctions on Russian state media, asserting that these outlets were masquerading as legitimate news providers in multiple countries as part of a broader strategy to disseminate Russian propaganda.
State Department official James Rubin described these networks as “a fully fledged member of the intelligence apparatus and operation of the Russian government.”
Meta’s move to censor Russian media should raise a couple of eyebrows in light of Zuckerberg’s recent statements expressing his regret for complying with the administration’s demands to suppress information related to COVID-19 and the Hunter Biden investigations prior to the very contentious 2020 election.
