immediately after the ban FacebookRussia has also announced a ban on instagram as well. Russian communications agency Roskomnadzor said the ban is because metaThe U.S. decision directs arbitrators to allow posts calling for violence against Russia if they originate from certain countries, including Ukraine. “This is wrong,” Instagram chief Adam Mosseri said in a tweet. Russia banned Facebook citing “discrimination against Russian media”.
The head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, said that the country’s ban on Instagram would cut 80 million Russians from one and the other and from the rest of the world. Mosseri said in his tweet that 80 percent of people in Russia follow an Instagram account outside their country. “On Monday, Instagram will be blocked in Russia. This decision will cut off 80 million in Russia from each other and from the rest of the world because ~80% of people in Russia follow an Instagram account outside their country. This is wrong,” Mosseri said.
Instagram will be blocked in Russia on Monday. This decision will cut off 80 million in Russia from each other and from the rest of the world because ~80% of people in Russia follow an Instagram account outside their country. That’s wrong.—Adam Mosseri (@mosseri) 11 March 2022
In translation of Roskomnadzor’s statement, the agency said, “On March 11, Meta Platform Inc. made an unprecedented decision by allowing the posting of information containing calls for violence against Russian citizens on its social networks Facebook and Instagram.” The communications agency said that “messages encouraging and inciting violent acts against Russians are circulating on the Instagram social network, in connection with which the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office demanded that Roskomnadzor restrict access to this social network.”
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Russia did not say in its statement that people in Russia have also used Instagram to speak out against the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Children from the oligarchs, who have a large following on Instagram, have also come out to speak out against the Russian invasion. The daughter of football club Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich, Sofia Abramovich reportedly shared a message saying, “The biggest and most successful lie of the Kremlin’s propaganda is that most Russians stand with Putin.” A banker named Oleg Tinkov, who was the 15th richest person in the world. Russia also posted on Instagram, saying, “We are against this war.”
The ban comes days after Meta announced that Instagram would label state-run media outlets and that in Russia and Ukraine, it is hiding information about people’s followers, who they are following, and those in both these countries. Located following each other for private accounts. Country.
The ban will take effect from Monday, March 14, and a Russian news agency has said that the ban does not apply to WhatsApp. “As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine we have temporarily made allowances for forms of political expression that generally violate our rules such as violent speech such as ‘death to the Russian invaders’.” We still will not allow credible calls for violence against Russian citizens,” Meta spokesman Andy Stone said earlier.
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