John Jefferson
Facebook owner Meta has announced that it is banning RT and other Russian state-controlled news outlets from its social media platforms, claiming that they carry out covert influence operations.
“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,” Meta said in a statement.
The social media giant’s move comes after years of restricting access to RT and other Russian state media outlets across Meta’s platforms, including Facebook and Instagram in the European Union.
The Facebook-parent company said the latest ban would be enforced in the coming days.
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