Meta Decides to Restrict Access to RT and Sputnik in the EU. Twitter Starts Labeling Tweets Containing Information from Russian State Media

Meta, the company that owns social networks Facebook and Instagram, will restrict access to Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik across the European Union, Meta Vice President Nick Clegg announced .

RT has already received a notification from Facebook about restricting access to the channel’s pages in Russian, English and Spanish in a number of European countries.

Earlier, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, stated that these media outlets and their subsidiaries would be banned in Europe.

In turn, Twitter began to label tweets with links to Russian state media and reduce the visibility of such content, the social network's administration reported .

• On February 25, Roskomnadzor announced a slowdown in Facebook traffic, citing the fact that the social network had censored four Russian media outlets: the Zvezda TV channel, RIA Novosti, Lenta.ru, and Gazeta.ru.
• On February 26, the agency demanded that 10 Russian media outlets remove “false information” about the war with Ukraine. This included materials where “the operation being conducted is called an attack, invasion, or declaration of war.” In addition, the regulatorblocked access to the websites of The New Times and Current Time , and added several major Ukrainian media outlets to the register of banned websites.