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Meta''s head of global affairs says company will limit access to RT and Sputnik in EU amid Russian attack on Ukraine.

Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are all taking tougher stances on content from Russian state media amid intensifying pressure from European officials for the Big Tech platforms to act against pro-Russian propaganda and address the escalating information war in Ukraine and across the internet.

The social media giant steps up efforts to limit Russian propaganda on its platforms.

The social network said it will limit access to RT and Sputnik across the EU "given the exceptional nature of the current situation."

Senior level leaders at Meta, Facebook’s parent company, the two campaigns were spreading disinformation about the ongoing invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces.

Facebook parent Meta will be limiting access to Russian state media on all its platforms in the European Union as a reaction to Moscow''s invasion of Ukraine, Facebook vice president of global affa…

Meta Platforms , parent company of Facebook, will restrict access to Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik on its platforms across the European Union, the company''s head of global affairs, Nick Clegg, said on Monday.

Meta’s decision comes after increased political pressure from European leaders.

Ivana Saric / Axios : Meta says it “will be restricting access to RT and Sputnik across the EU at this time” following requests from a number of governments and the EU — Facebook parent Meta will restrict access to Russian state media on its platforms across the EU in response to Russia''s unprovoked invasion …

Facebook will restrict access to Russian state-controlled media across the European Union, Meta vice president of global affairs Nick Clegg said Monday. “​​We have received requests from a number of Governments and the EU to take further steps…

Meta, parent company of Facebook, will restrict access to Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik across its platforms in the European Union.

Microsoft is joining Facebook, YouTube and others in limiting the reach of Russian state media following the invasion of Ukraine. The company is responding to the European Union’s ban on RT and Sputnik by pulling those outlets from its platforms. Microsoft Start (including MSN) won’t display state-sponsored RT and Sputnik content, while all ads from […] Microsoft is the latest to ban Russian state media from its platforms | Engadget

Facebook parent Meta is warning users that Russian-backed hackers are trying to take over Ukrainian accounts to spread disinformation.

CUPERTINO, Calif. , Feb. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The developers who built Conductor , Netflix''s popular open-source project for microservices and workflow orchestration, have raised $9.3M in funding to launch Orkes , the first fully managed cloud platform for the fast-growing community of early stage and Fortune 100 companies relying on Conductor, including Tesla, Oracle, American Express, and Cisco. The founding team brings engineering and product leadership experience from Netflix, Google, AWS, and Microsoft Azure. The round was co-led by Battery Ventures and Vertex Ventures US alongside notable cloud infrastructure angel investors Mahendra Ramsinghani and Gokul Rajaram as well as senior executives from companies like Amazon and Facebook. Battery Ventures General Partner Dharmesh Thakker led his firm''s investment and will be involved with observer status, and Vertex US General Partner Sandeep Bhadra will join the Orkes board of directors to help guide the company''s growth. Orkes will use the funding to build out its team, create an enterprise ecosystem, and support the Conductor open-source platform and community. "Conductor is critical infrastructure for thousands of businesses, but as an open-source project you still have to build it, manage it, and host it yourself," said Jeu George , CEO and co-founder of Orkes. "We built Orkes so developers can focus on their core software instead of the operational details of running Conductor at scale; with Orkes they no longer have to worry about things like high availability, cluster management, or security patching." "The adoption curve of Conductor is among the fastest I''ve seen, and to be able to support the …

A group known as Ghostwriter allegedly gained access to several accounts registered in Ukraine and posted alleged propaganda videos.