The social network Twitter decided to restrict access to Russian state media following the European Union, which stopped broadcasting the Russian TV channels RT and Sputnik.
“Sanctions from the European Union have legitimately pushed us to refrain from such content in EU member states, and we intend to follow them,” he is quoted as saying. Interfax Twitter spokeswoman Cathy Rosbrough.
She added that the global approach will continue to focus on mitigating such media content outside of Europe as well.
On February 25, Roskomnadzor announced a slowdown in the traffic of the social network Facebook, which the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office recognized as being involved in the violation of the rights and freedoms of Russians. This happened after Facebook restricted the accounts of several state-owned Russian media outlets: Zvezda TV channel, RIA Novosti, Lenta.ru and Gazeta.ru because of materials about military operations in Ukraine. The RKN also announced the slowdown of Twitter.
Experts advise users to install a VPN to bypass blocking.
