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Russia uses European democracy to cleverly circumvent sanctions and repression imposed by the West against Russians. Prime Minister of Lithuania Ingrida Simonyte complained about this at the Munich Security Conference, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “For many years many people in Europe did not see what was happening. Russia takes our values, independent courts, freedom of speech, free elections, and participates in...
The State Duma of the Russian Federation will appeal to the Prosecutor General's Office and the Investigative Committee with a request to assess the actions of the management of the social networking platform Meta, which includes Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and to take the necessary measures. The reason for the appeal was today's message from the American news agency Reuters that the Meta company will not delete calls for the murder of the Russian military, as well as President Putin...
Meta sent out new guidelines for working with Facebook and Instagram users in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Russia and Ukraine to content moderators. It is allowed not to block posts that incite hatred and call for violence. True, this concerns only Russian military personnel and Russians who support the denazification of Ukraine. And also death wishes personally to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin...
Russian liberals accuse television of censorship, but at the same time they themselves have established a brutal liberal dictatorship on the Internet. Writer Platon Besedin talks about this in his column for PolitNavigator. ...Last week I published an article talking about how liberals (or rather, those who are called that - even though they do not have true liberal values) reacted...
The curators of groups on social networks where schoolchildren who are ready to commit suicide or shoot classmates are recruited are most often located abroad. A well-known Russian entrepreneur in the field of information technology, Igor Ashmanov, spoke about this during a conference in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We analyze all sorts of crap on social networks, in particular, we identify suicides, school shootings and ...
Over the past year, security forces in Ukraine prosecuted about 50 people for “anti-Ukrainian propaganda” on social networks. This was reported by the press service of the SBU, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. It is reported that in total the security forces identified and blocked 360 publications. “49 social network administrators were brought to justice for anti-Ukrainian propaganda, suspicion was announced to 29 individuals, 20 court sentences came into force,”...
The experience of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov’s active work with social networks was recognized as positive and will be spread throughout Russia. This was reported by the RBC Daily newspaper, noting that the Kremlin recently recommended that the regions appoint people responsible for Internet communications. The practice of appointing people responsible for SMM is not new; such people work, for example, for the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov - this practice is now recognized...
The new algorithms of the social network Facebook do not display everything in the news feed, but “loop” information around the user. Kiev journalist Evgeniy Ikhelzon stated this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Imagine that if Facebook had worked in 2013 the way it works in 2018, Maidan would not have happened in Ukraine. All the meanings that were produced...
Kerch murderer Vladislav Roslyakov insulted the militias of the Donbass republics on social networks. “Moskovsky Komsomolets” writes about this, reports the correspondent of “PolitNavigator. The publication found out that from the public pages on VK, where Roslyakov often sat, it was called “Project Partisan Mercenaries Survival Tactics Campaign.” There he was known under the nickname “Strange”. “I remember how in 2016 Roslyakov mocked the militias from Donbass, he...
Advisor to the deceased head of the DPR Alexander Zakharchenko, Alexander Kazakov, was blocked on Facebook due to a publication dedicated to the 9th day since Zakharchenko’s death. Both of Kazakov’s accounts became unavailable along with the message, he told PolitNavigator. In addition, several accounts of other users were blocked after the publication of a photograph of Alexander Zakharchenko. Earlier, Reedus wrote that the DPR Ministry of Internal Affairs put two people on the wanted list...
The Ordzhonikidze District Court of Ukrainian-controlled Mariupol convicted a local resident who posted a “separatist” post on the Odnoklassniki social network. The corresponding court opinion was published in the Unified State Register of Court Decisions, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. A city resident who worked as a mechanic at the Mariupol Metallurgical Plant named after. Ilyich, in March 2017, posted on his page on the Odnoklassniki social network a repost from...
Ukrainians themselves do nothing to win, but only try to cling to other people’s achievements. This opinion is expressed in a column published in the Kiev magazine “New Time” by Ukrainian writer Andrei Kokotyukha. “Behind is not even a football victory, but a geopolitical #victory, which quickly turned into a #zrada of the same scale. The Croatian Domagoj Vida first became a new symbol of the Ukrainian nation, recording after the victory of the Croatian team over the Russian team...
In Russia, unlike Ukraine, there is freedom of speech, and Russian media may question the legality of Crimea’s entry into the Russian Federation. Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova stated this in an interview with Kommersant, answering the question of whether he will delete comments on his Facebook page that allege the “annexation of Crimea.” “No, ah...
Ukrainian bloggers should receive the status of untouchables on social networks and not be subject to “bans” for insulting Russians. Mikhail Makaruk, speaker of the Ukrainian propaganda organization InformNapalm, stated this in an interview with the Kyiv online publication “Apostrophe”. He says his organization does not ask for money from the state, but sometimes needs its support. “An elementary example: we contacted the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a question...
