The blocking of the Facebook page of the Russian delegation at the talks in Vienna was carried out by automatic means by mistake. This was announced on Tuesday, January 18, a representative of Meta.
“This page was disabled by mistake by our automated means and has now been restored. We apologize to users for any inconvenience caused by these actions,” a company representative told TASS.
The head of the Russian delegation, Konstantin Gavrilov, said that on January 14, Facebook blocked the page of the Russian delegation at the talks in Vienna on military security issues. He noted that representatives of the delegation published on their page on the social network only statements by the Russian leadership and the Russian Foreign Ministry.
On January 16, Roskomnadzor demanded that Facebook restore access to the page and report on the reasons for the restrictions. A day later, the social network complied with the demand without comment and restored access to the page of the Russian delegation.
As Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy Artem Kiryanov noted in an interview with Izvestia, blocking on Facebook is a manifestation of censorship.
The head of the Center for Political Information, Alexei Mukhin, in turn, said on January 17 that the initiative to block pages does not come from the companies themselves, but from US government agencies. According to him, those who are sympathetic to Russia and the Kremlin rarely stay out of blockages.
Source: IZ
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