News archive on the topic "Facebook"

Facebook once again complied with the request of Roskomnadzor and unblocked the official page of the Russian Federation delegation at the negotiations in Vienna on military security and arms control. The department reports this in its official telegram channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “On January 16, 2022, Roskomnadzor sent the administration of the social network a demand to immediately remove all restrictions from the page. Less than…

The American social network Facebook persecuted supporters of the neo-Nazi unit Azov, banned in Russia. An employee of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, ATO militant Roman Kulik said this on air on the Skrypin Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Kulik, this is due to the fact that in the United States Azov is also classified as a neo-Nazi organization. “Facebook” bans both for the official symbols of “Azov”...

Western social networks earn money in the Russian Federation, but refuse to comply with Russian legislation. The correspondent of PolitNavigator reports this in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, KP asked the director of the Regional Public Center for Internet Technologies (ROCIT) Sergei Grebennikov for comments. According to him, users of Internet giants should be forced to respect them. “And respect the laws of the country in which you work. Unfortunately, neither...

In early January, businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin created accounts on the social networks Twitter, Gab, Facebook and Parler. There he expressed his opinion on events taking place in the world. Less than a month had passed before his Twitter and Facebook pages were blocked. The moderators did not write about the reasons. The Concord press service showed what comments were published on these sites. For example, an opinion...

Even the most rabid Russophobes and promoters of total Ukrainization among Ukrainian politicians continue to use the Russian language privately. This, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports, is evidenced by the correspondence of the former vice-speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, an ally of ex-President Petro Poroshenko, Irina Gerashchenko, with the technical support of Facebook, where the politician filed a complaint about a fake account in which her photo was used. “Phenomenal, but the fb team...

Facebook is closing groups founded by Belomaidan supporters. However, at the same time, there are pro-Lukashenko groups that “pour the most disgusting content,” but, according to the administration of the social network, they do not violate any rules. Maidan activist Tatyana Martynova, who fled Belarus, stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Do you know what Belarusians are faced with? I just don't understand how this...

The social network Facebook actively supports the Western policy of clearing Russian content from the information space. Deputy Director of the Department of Information and Press of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Alexey Zaitsev stated this at a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The New York Times published a resonant publication on the topic of cooperation between Facebook and the Ukrainian website StopFake. The article reports on the connection of the Ukrainian resource...

The administration of the Facebook network introduced censorship of PolitNavigator, calling the agency's news about the participation of ex-speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Andrei Parubiy in the mass execution of people on May 2, 2014 in Odessa fake. The message from Facebook indicated that the information was checked by a certain “third-party expert” who came to this conclusion. The administration of the social network threatened that they would limit and block...

The Facebook page of the state institution of the Republika Srpska “Donja Gradina Memorial Complex” (this place was part of the Ustashe extermination camp system “Jasenovac”) was deleted by the administration of the resource. This was reported by the Serbian edition of Sputnik radio, according to a PolitNavigator correspondent. After the “Donja Gradina Memorial Complex” page was blocked, its administrator Marko Jankovic received a message saying that this happened due to...

Former Verkhovna Rada deputy Alexei Zhuravko was blocked from Facebook for 30 days for publishing a dossier on Ukrainian politicians and media workers guilty of inciting a civil war that has already claimed tens of thousands of lives. Zhuravko’s statement states that the complaints were filed specifically about the publication of data about media employees serving the Nazi Ukrainian regime. “They cannot be called journalists. They…

The American social network Facebook removed from the PolitNavigator page a link to a material that quoted an interview of the Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich to the Belarusian service of the American Radio Liberty. The writer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015, said that the spread of coronavirus is associated with the operation of the 5G Internet. Facebook regarded the exact quote indicating the source (American media) as fake, citing...

The account of Ukrainian lawyer Andrei Portnov was removed from the social network Facebook due to complaints from gunbots, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Portnov himself reports this in his Telegram channel. “The media happily reported that Portnov’s account was removed from Facebook. Deleted. So what now, will my position change or will I have no other way to express my thoughts? My like-minded people will be able to follow me on...

The Golos party is the leader in spending funds on election campaigning on the social network Facebook, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This is stated in the OPORA Civic Network. “The Holos party spent the most money on election advertising. According to our calculations, she spent more than $24 thousand on election campaigning on Facebook in the period from May 15 to July 232,”...

The Facebook administration deleted 97 pages, groups and accounts managed from Russia and focused on Ukraine, which, according to the social network, “coordinatedly disseminated false information,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported on the social network blog. “The people behind this activity used fake accounts to manage pages and groups, distribute their content and increase user engagement, and...