Russia is blocking access to Facebook amid its invasion of Ukraine as it seeks to crack down on social media and and dissenting views on the war within its borders.
The government said the move against Facebook is due to the platform’s “discrimination against Russian news media,” The New York Times reported.
Facebook immediately decried the decision, which it said would further cut off ordinary Russians from truthful information about their country’s invasion of Ukraine.
“Soon millions of ordinary Russians will find themselves cut off from reliable information, deprived of their everyday ways of connecting with family and friends and silenced from speaking out,” Meta president of global affairs Nick Clegg wrote in a a statement on Twitter. Meta is Facebook’s parent company.
“We will continue to do everything we can to restore our services so they remain available to people to safely and securely express themselves and organize for action,” he added.
Facebook has made several moves against Russia during the course of the war as the state-run outlets have been perpetuating misinformation around the attack.
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