Russia has already banned Facebook for restricting access to Russian media while Instagram was blocked after Meta said it would allow socia...

The court was considering a request by prosecutors to designate Meta -- the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp -- as an "ex...

A Meta spokesperson confirmed it had temporarily eased its rules for political speech, allowing posts such as "death to the Russian invader...

UKRAINE-CRISIS-META-PLATFORMS-RUSSIA-Russian prosecutors ask court to name Meta as "extremist organisation" - Interfax

The regulator, Roskomnadzor, said there had been 26 cases of discrimination against Russian media by Facebook since October 2020, including...

The moves against the social media giants follow blocks imposed on the BBC, the U.S. government-funded Voice of America and Radio Free Euro...

Tech companies in recent days have moved to restrict Russian state-controlled media including RT and Sputnik in response to requests from g...

For the tech companies, the stand-off is the latest step in an ongoing confrontation with Russia where platforms risk government-imposed re...

Meta said in the last 48 hours it had also separately removed a network of about 40 fake accounts, groups and pages across Facebook and Ins...

For the tech companies, the stand-off is the latest step in an ongoing confrontation with Russia where platforms risk government-imposed re...

Moscow has also increased pressure on domestic media, threatening to block reports that contain what it describes as "false information" re...

Russia’s media regulator has drawn up a new protocol to penalise the US social media giant for repeatedly failing “to remove information da...

Russia's largest home-grown social network, Vkontakte, has far more daily users in the country than Facebook and reported a spike in messag...

Communications watchdog Roskomnadzor at the weekend threatened Facebook with a minimum 1 million rouble ($13,433) fine and demanded it rest...

The network had ties to individuals linked to French military & Russia's Internet Research Agency.

Facebook, Google and Twitter should provide monthly reports on their fight against disinformation, two senior EU officials said on Wednesda...

Britain has consistently criticised Russia for attempting to manipulate elections around the world, while insisting there’s no evidence of ...