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Putin reportedly blocks Russians’ access to Facebook, Twitter, app stores

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Putin reportedly blocks Russians’ access to Facebook, Twitter, app stores

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Russia is reportedly blocking Twitter, Facebook, various news sites, and major app stores, according in order to a German journalist.

The move comes after the Russian government announced last week that it was partially restricting access to Facebook in retaliation for the company applying fact-checking labels to posts from state-controlled media outlets. Earlier this week, Meta, Facebook’s parent company, and YouTube blocked access to Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik in the European Union.

The news of Russia’s blockade came from Mathieu von Rohr, head of the foreign desk at German newsmagazine Der Spiegel. He tweeted that “Twitter, Facebook, BBC, Deutsche Welle, App Stores” were all being blocked. (Deutsche Welle is the German public broadcaster. )

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