(5 Mar 2022) Russians woke up on Saturday to find large swathes of the internet off limits as authorities intensify their grip on the circulation of information.
Russia's media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, announced late on Friday that it has blocked nationwide access to Facebook and Twitter in line with a decision by the prosecutor general's office over spreading what they called fake news over the situation in Ukraine.
The watchdog has previously accused Twitter of failing to delete the content banned by Russian authorities and slowed down access to it.
The moves against the social media giants follow blocks imposed on the BBC, the U.S. government-funded Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, German broadcaster Deutsche Welle and Latvia-based website Meduza.
The government's sweeping action against the foreign outlets that publish news in Russian seeks to establish even tighter controls over what information the domestic audience sees about the invasion of Ukraine.
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