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The Facebook and Instagram parent wades into treacherous territory by allowing some calls for political violence against Russians. Read More

Instagram will soon be inaccessible in Russia, according to regulator Roskomnadzor. The latest ban is in response to Facebook "temporarily" changing its rules to allows for calls for violence against Russian soldiers and Vladimir Putin. Though Facebook has been “restricted” in the country for more than a week, the ban didn’t extend to Instagram. State news agency TASS reported earlier that Russian lawmakers had called for the ban in response to the company''s rule change. Now, the state regulator Roskomnadzor says that it will move to cut off access to the photo sharing app on March 14th. “Messages are circulating on the Instagram social network encouraging and provoking violent acts against Russians, in connection with which the Russian Prosecutor General''s Office demanded that Roskomnadzor restrict access to this social network,” Roskomnadzor posted on its Telegram account . “Roskomnadzor decided to complete the procedure for imposing restrictions on access to Instagram at 00:00 on March 14, providing users with an additional 48 hours of transition period.

Russia''s communications regulator is stepping up its battle with Facebook parent Meta Platforms (FB -3.3%), now restricting access to Instagram in the country amid its ongoing war…

Russian authorities called for Facebook and Instagram''s parent company to be labeled an extremist group after the tech giant said it would allow some calls for violence against "Russian invaders".

Facebook Temporarily Allows , Violent Anti-Russian Posts. According to Reuters, Meta Platforms has made a temporary change to its policy on hate speech. Meta will reportedly allow users of Facebook and Instagram in certain countries to post calls for violence against Russia within the …

RUSSIA has reportedly opened a criminal case against Meta Platforms over its temporary violent speech policy. The move by the Kremlin is in direct retaliation to the social media giant allowing calls for violence against Russian soldiers on its apps, which include Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram. “A criminal case has been initiated … in connection […]

The seat of power in Russia, Kremlin, has issued threats to ban Facebook and Instagram over calls for violence against Russia. The Mark Zuckerberg-led company had earlier on Friday shown solidarity to calls for violence against Russian soldiers on its platforms in some countries. In what it described as a “necessary” move, Russia alleged that […] The post Russia threatens to ban Facebook, Instagram amid calls for violence against soldiers appeared first on Latest Nigeria News | Top Stories from Ripples Nigeria .

Russia''s Investigative Committee, which reports directly to Russian president Vladimir Putin, confirmed that a criminal case had been started against Meta.

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Vladimir Putin’s government have moved to ban all Met owned apps including Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp after Russia has declared war against Mark Zuckerberg’s apps as they add Instagram and Whatsapp to the banned list. The new restrictions come shortly after Meta – which owns Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp – was branded as an “extremist organisation” for allegedly changing its hate speech policy to allow posts that call for violence against the Russian military. The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation submitted an application to court to have the designation applied to the social media giants, Interfax reports. The application read: “In accordance with the Federal Law ‘On Countering Extremist Activity’, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation sent an application to the court to recognize Meta Platforms Inc. as an extremist organization and ban its activities in the territory of the Russian Federation.” The post Russia moves to declare Meta an ‘extremist’ organization appeared first on National Daily Newspaper .