Apple removes RFE/RL's Svoboda app from the Russian App Store at the demand of Roskomnadzor; Apple also removed recent podcasts by Ekho Moskvy and others
BBC Russian Service, The Insider, and Echo Moskvy—from its Russian users, Mediazona learned. There were no updates for several days, and users who haven't listened to these podcasts before can't even ...
Sources: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France as part of a probe into Telegram allegedly allowing a range of crimes due to a lack of moderation
Related by education: Saint Petersburg State University BBC : Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested at French airport Jones Hayden / Politico : Telegram CEO reportedly arrested at French airport Jennifer ...
Users in Russia report outages affecting Telegram, WhatsApp, and other services; Roskomnadzor blames a DDoS attack, while activists suspect Kremlin interference
Downdetector Brace yourself, the 'It's working fine for me' messages are pending... [image] Mario Nawfal / @marionawfal : 🚨🇷🇺 ‘LARGE-SCALE’ OUTAGES HIT TELEGRAM, WHATSAPP IN RUSSIA Reports indicate th...
The Supreme Court agrees to hear two cases concerning whether Florida and Texas can restrict social media companies from removing political posts or accounts
I have no guess how this will go. — Both states have had crushing backlash from their political scandals and freedom inhibiting legislation, so wanting to restrict criticism while spreading their ow...
How Sweden's Psychological Defense Agency, a part of the Ministry of Defense, is combating online disinformation from foreign adversaries, especially Russia
Sweden has tasked its psychological defense authority with openly combating fake news from foreign actors. … X: Alex Steffen / @alexsteffen : Some people, at least, are treating these Russian corrupti...
How Sweden's Psychological Defense Agency, a part of the Ministry of Defense, is combating online disinformation from foreign adversaries, especially Russia
The country has empowered a government agency to openly combat online disinformation coming from foreign adversaries, and especially the Kremlin. Mastodon: @carl@heath.social . X: @dabeard , @nytimest...
Twitter no longer lets users browse tweets, user profiles, and comment threads on the web without logging in, redirecting Twitter URLs to the sign in page
https://www.theverge.com/... @ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social : You can no longer view tweets if you're not logged in to twitter. — You can't even view someone's twitter profile, not even if it's public....
Roskomnadzor says it is blocking Facebook in Russia, citing 26 cases of “discrimination against Russian media and information resources” since October 2020
Russia is being cut off from the rest of the online world … France 24 : Russia blocks Facebook over ‘discrimination’ of state media Brittany Bernstein / National Review : Kremlin Blocks Access to Face...