The Facebook owner has acted after Washington claimed Russian outlets are espionage offshoots
US tech giant Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, has banned several Russian news networks, including RT.
In a statement on Monday, the company said the deplatforming of the media outlets from its apps is due to “foreign interference activity” and would be implemented globally over the next several days.
The US government last week targeted RT with sanctions, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken claiming that the outlet is “functioning as a de facto arm of [Russian] intelligence.”
Moscow has called the move an act of information warfare, which exposes the US inability to compete with Russian messaging fairly.
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