Nice, but it serves only to reduce somewhat the water pressure in the fire hose of falsehoods coming from Kremlin propagandists on social media.
accidentsneverhappen on
Trump is gonna shit
FreeGums on
And this wasn’t done 2 years ago? Complicit, treason, illicit, in running out of derogatory terms
PNWchild on
Good. We need as little anti-UA news out there as possible. The Ukraine is a strong democracy that needs our financial support and full NATO membership. They should ban right wing news sources next, they’re pretty much the same thing as Putin Propaganda.
woliphirl on
10 goddamn years late.
lofidelity on
“I HATE MARK ZUCKERBERG!”
– Donald Trump, soon
Floranthos on
Hypocritical Elon tweet about freedom of speech coming in 3… 2…
PoliticalCanvas on
> 2021-2022 years: Russia gives NATO an ultimatum about withdraw from Eastern Europe, and begins constantly threat by full spectrum of WMD (including by supplying relevant technologies to enemies of the West), create hundreds of provocations and disinformation campaigns, not to say about atrocities during biggert since WW2, de facto colonial, war against European state.
> 2024 year: “BREAKING NEWS! Facebook owner Meta bans Russian state media outlets!”
I wonder, how WW2 veterans would have reacted to such news?
IvyDialtone on
Like 14 years too late
ThomasTankHead on
How did it take this long?
itistacotimeforme on
Reddit and Google need to follow suit.
iamisandisnt on
Zucc goin hard for that lesser of two evils award
Nodebunny on
Probably cuz the FBI came knocking finally
Rokea-x on
When the boat is finally sinking..
Stinkyclamjuice15 on
Too little too late.
Bro doesn’t give a fuck what happens to the world as long as he can disappear to his bunker in Hawaii.
SarcasticComposer on
Good. Now do nazis.
MarshyHope on
Now ban the “why don’t pictures like this ever trend” AI posts that are definitely not going to be used to push election denial in a few months.
pontiacfirebird92 on
Did he really though?
kungfoojesus on
Lol, good but their tentacles are everywhere and this will do little until they go after every metastatic growth, every bot, everyone on the payroll.
papagarry on
Oh shit, Harris might see a nice uptick in the polls.
EmbarrassedCockRing on
Zucc finally smelling blood in the water for Trump
protomenace on
It’s incredible how little I care about Elmo’s inevitable reaction to this.
stonge1302 on
Does Musk fall under this category?
McFloofaloof on
Amazing… they banned Canada from getting news on Facebook before they banned Russian news outlets..
Halinn on
Better late than never I guess. But this is real late…
autotldr on
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/meta-russia-oulets-1.7325186) reduced by 57%. (I’m a bot)
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> Facebook owner Meta said on Monday it was banning RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other Russian state media networks, alleging the outlets used deceptive tactics to carry out influence operations while evading detection on the social media company's platforms.
> "After 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," the company said in a written statement.
> The ban marks a sharp escalation by the world's biggest social media company against Russian state media after it spent years taking more limited steps like blocking the outlets from running ads and reducing the reach of their posts.
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About damn time.
Loooooong overdue.
Nice, but it serves only to reduce somewhat the water pressure in the fire hose of falsehoods coming from Kremlin propagandists on social media.
Trump is gonna shit
And this wasn’t done 2 years ago? Complicit, treason, illicit, in running out of derogatory terms
Good. We need as little anti-UA news out there as possible. The Ukraine is a strong democracy that needs our financial support and full NATO membership. They should ban right wing news sources next, they’re pretty much the same thing as Putin Propaganda.
10 goddamn years late.
“I HATE MARK ZUCKERBERG!”
– Donald Trump, soon
Hypocritical Elon tweet about freedom of speech coming in 3… 2…
> 2021-2022 years: Russia gives NATO an ultimatum about withdraw from Eastern Europe, and begins constantly threat by full spectrum of WMD (including by supplying relevant technologies to enemies of the West), create hundreds of provocations and disinformation campaigns, not to say about atrocities during biggert since WW2, de facto colonial, war against European state.
> 2024 year: “BREAKING NEWS! Facebook owner Meta bans Russian state media outlets!”
I wonder, how WW2 veterans would have reacted to such news?
Like 14 years too late
How did it take this long?
Reddit and Google need to follow suit.
Zucc goin hard for that lesser of two evils award
Probably cuz the FBI came knocking finally
When the boat is finally sinking..
Too little too late.
Bro doesn’t give a fuck what happens to the world as long as he can disappear to his bunker in Hawaii.
Good. Now do nazis.
Now ban the “why don’t pictures like this ever trend” AI posts that are definitely not going to be used to push election denial in a few months.
Did he really though?
Lol, good but their tentacles are everywhere and this will do little until they go after every metastatic growth, every bot, everyone on the payroll.
Oh shit, Harris might see a nice uptick in the polls.
Zucc finally smelling blood in the water for Trump
It’s incredible how little I care about Elmo’s inevitable reaction to this.
Does Musk fall under this category?
Amazing… they banned Canada from getting news on Facebook before they banned Russian news outlets..
Better late than never I guess. But this is real late…
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/meta-russia-oulets-1.7325186) reduced by 57%. (I’m a bot)
*****
> Facebook owner Meta said on Monday it was banning RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other Russian state media networks, alleging the outlets used deceptive tactics to carry out influence operations while evading detection on the social media company's platforms.
> "After 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," the company said in a written statement.
> The ban marks a sharp escalation by the world's biggest social media company against Russian state media after it spent years taking more limited steps like blocking the outlets from running ads and reducing the reach of their posts.
*****
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