Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, has responded to the US government’s directive urging entities and nations abroad to ban all activities by Russian state broadcaster RT and other Moscow-funded networks.
Meta on Tuesday announced it is booting RT from its apps globally, agreeing with the Biden administration on its charge of deceptive influence operations. “After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets. Rossiya Segodnya, RT and other related entities are now banned from our apps globally for foreign interference activity,” a Meta spokesman said.
At this point no RT page or channel will be present on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads. RT’s Facebook page with 7.2 million followers has disappeared as has its Instagram page with one million followers.
