© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Meta emblem is positioned on a Russian flag on this illustration taken February 26, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
By Elizabeth Culliford and Sheila Dang
(Reuters) – Meta Platforms is globally demoting content material from Russian state-controlled media retailers’ Fb (NASDAQ:) pages and Instagram accounts, in addition to posts containing hyperlinks to these retailers on Fb, the corporate’s head of world affairs mentioned on Tuesday.
Tech and social media corporations have confronted strain to answer final Thursday’s invasion of Ukraine by Russia, which has led to financial sanctions towards Moscow by governments all over the world.
Meta’s Nick Clegg informed reporters throughout a convention name that the corporate had seen a “undoubtedly discernable” degradation of its companies in Russia since authorities there introduced they might limit Meta’s platforms. Video and different multimedia content material had notably been affected, Clegg mentioned.
Meta had been in “protracted discussions” with Russia’s communications regulator Roskomnadzor over its new regulation that requires some international web corporations to open workplaces in Russia, Clegg added. He referred to as a few of the provisions underneath the brand new regulation “disproportionate.”
Meta, together with Twitter (NYSE:) and Alphabet (NASDAQ:)’s Google, face attainable punitive measures in Russia as a result of they haven’t but complied.
On Monday, Meta mentioned it will limit entry to Russian state media retailers RT and Sputnik on its platforms throughout the European Union.
Clegg mentioned the corporate had additionally acquired requests from governments outdoors of the European Union to dam Russian state media. He mentioned he was not conscious of such a request from the USA authorities.
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