{"id":13048,"date":"2024-09-17T05:21:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T05:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=13048"},"modified":"2024-09-17T05:25:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T05:25:13","slug":"meta-plans-to-ban-the-russian-tv-network-rt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=13048","title":{"rendered":"Meta Plans to Ban the Russian TV Network RT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Facebook and Instagram owner said it would bar Russian media outlets including RT, which the U.S. has accused of acting as an intelligence arm.<\/p>\n

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Meta on Monday said that it plans to bar Russian media outlets including RT, the state-owned television network that has come under scrutiny in the United States<\/a>, from posting to its platforms, saying the outlets had carried out covert influence campaigns across social media sites to manipulate discourse online.<\/p>\n

Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, said the ban would take place in the coming days. The move escalates actions against Russian state media actors that U.S. intelligence officials have said run disinformation operations across the world\u2019s largest social networks.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets: Rossiya Segodnya, RT and other related entities are now banned from our apps globally for foreign interference activity,\u201d Meta said in a statement.<\/p>\n

U.S. authorities have recently cracked down on RT<\/a> for trying to interfere in the presidential election in November. On Friday, the United States \u2014 along with Canada and Britain \u2014 accused RT of acting as an arm of Russia\u2019s intelligence agencies and announced new sanctions meant to cut off international financing for disinformation operations around the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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That followed the federal indictment of two RT employees for funneling at least $9.7 million to bankroll American podcasters on Tenet Media<\/a>, a video-streaming site in Tennessee, in hopes of pushing the Kremlin\u2019s propaganda and undermining the American democratic political process.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re exposing how Russia deploys similar tactics around the world,\u201d Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said on Friday. \u201cRussian weaponization of disinformation to subvert and polarize free and open societies extends to every part of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Facebook and Instagram owner said it would bar Russian media outlets including RT, which the U.S. has accused of acting as an intelligence arm.Meta on Monday said that it plans to bar Russian media outlets including RT, the state-owned television network that has come under scrutiny in the United States, from posting to its platforms, saying the outlets had carried out covert influence campaigns across social media sites to manipulate discourse online.Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, said the ban would take place in the coming days. The move escalates actions against Russian state media actors that U.S. intelligence officials have said run disinformation operations across the world\u2019s largest social networks.\u201cAfter careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets: Rossiya Segodnya, RT and other related entities are now banned from our apps globally for foreign interference activity,\u201d Meta said in a statement.U.S. authorities have recently cracked down on RT for trying to interfere in the presidential election in November. On Friday, the United States \u2014 along with Canada and Britain \u2014 accused RT of acting as an arm of Russia\u2019s intelligence agencies and announced new sanctions meant to cut off international financing for disinformation operations around the world.That followed the federal indictment of two RT employees for funneling at least $9.7 million to bankroll American podcasters on Tenet Media, a video-streaming site in Tennessee, in hopes of pushing the Kremlin\u2019s propaganda and undermining the American democratic political process.\u201cWe\u2019re exposing how Russia deploys similar tactics around the world,\u201d Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said on Friday. \u201cRussian weaponization of disinformation to subvert and polarize free and open societies extends to every part of the world.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13050,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13051,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13048\/revisions\/13051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}