Facebook blocked Russian media articles written based on the FSB press release. Roskomnadzor demanded their return

Updated . Roskomnadzor demanded that Facebook restore access to materials posted in Russian media accounts - TASS, RBC, and Vzglyad. We are talking about articles about the detention of supporters of the "MKU". It also became known that such materials were also deleted in the accounts of RT, RIA Novosti, Sputnik, Komsomolskaya Pravda and NTV.

The social network Facebook blocked the materials of the Russian news agencies TASS and RBC about the detention in Voronezh of alleged supporters of the Ukrainian youth radical group "MKU". this on Both publications reported March 7.

We are talking about articles published on February 18 and based on the official press release of the FSB. The social network marked the information from the materials as “false”.

The Ukrainian fact-checking platform StopFake is called the contractor who checked the reports of Russian publications. “In Voronezh, indeed, three local residents were detained on charges of extremism, but all the defendants in the case are citizens of the Russian Federation, were members of a Russian nationalist organization and have nothing to do with Ukraine,” RBC quotes a StopFake expert.

“RBC insists on the correctness of the presentation of information from the official report of the FSB. The editors sent a request to the Facebook administration with a request to conduct an additional check and explain the decision to block the material, ”the agency’s editors said. TASS also promised to file a complaint with the social network, as well as “draw the attention of Roskomnadzor to the situation.”

• Facebook began cracking down on fake news in 2016, following misinformation about the US presidential campaign that appeared on the social network. There is an option to report potentially fake material in the Facebook menu. It is passed on to third parties for verification. As part of the content fact-checking program in Ukraine, the social network cooperates with Ukrainian organizations VoxCheck and StopFake.