Russia Ukraine War / Big action on Russia's Meta, Putin included in the list of terrorist organizations

Zoom News : Oct 12, 2022, 09:18 AM
Russia Ukraine War: The ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine is being fought on two fronts. One front is Ukraine, where the soldiers of both countries are face to face, while the other front is of sanctions. Ever since the war started, America and its allies have been imposing sanctions on Russia, so in retaliation, Russia is banning institutions and companies associated with these countries. In this episode, once again Russia has taken a big step. It has included the giant social media company Meta in the list of "terrorist and extremist" organizations.

Russia has put META on par with terrorist organizations

According to a database of the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring (Rosfinmonitoring), Russia has taken this action on Tuesday against Instagram and Facebook's parent company Meta. Russia's decision puts META on a list on a par with right-wing nationalist groups, foreign terrorist organizations including the Taliban, and Russian opposition groups.

Instagram and Facebook banned in Russia since March

Let us tell you that at the end of March this year, Facebook and Instagram were banned in Russia, accusing them of carrying out extremist activities, then officials accused Meta of wrongdoing during Russia's military operation in Ukraine. Running the campaign. In fact, a few days after the Russian attack, Meta announced that it would allow the people of Ukraine to share violent pictures related to the war and to share them in criticism of Russia. Only after this did Russia take this action.

Many people are still using it through VPN

Of course Facebook and Instagram have been officially banned in Russia since March and are out of reach of people, but many people are still using these social media platforms with the help of VPN. It is known that Instagram was quite popular in Russia and used to be a major platform for sales and advertising. Not only Russia, billions of people around the world use different apps of Meta.

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