Twitter to 'significantly reduce' circulation of Russian state-linked media content
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Twitter too has followed suit and is trying to limit Russia's activity on the platform.
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Twitter plans to introduce next week special labeling system for share links associated with Russian state-affiliated media websites, Twitter's head of Site Integrity Yoel Roth said on Monday.
“Today, we’re adding labels to Tweets that share links to Russian state-affiliated media websites and are taking steps to significantly reduce the circulation of this content on Twitter. We’ll roll out these labels to other state-affiliated media outlets in the coming weeks,” Roth tweeted.
Today, we’re adding labels to Tweets that share links to Russian state-affiliated media websites and are taking steps to significantly reduce the circulation of this content on Twitter.
— Yoel Roth (@yoyoel) February 28, 2022
We’ll roll out these labels to other state-affiliated media outlets in the coming weeks. pic.twitter.com/57Dycmn8lx
The new labels would say - “This Tweet links to a Russia state-affiliated media website” - and it will be placed on top of a link in a tweet.
This comes following Russia's special operation to demilitarize and de-Nazify Ukraine, responding to calls from the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics for help in countering intensifying aggression of Ukrainian troops.
EU to ban RT, Sputnik
The European Union will ban Russian media outlets RT and Sputnik, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced Sunday, accusing the pair of "spreading harmful disinformation."
The European chief did not specify whether this ban would extend to the outlets' websites or social media pages or would be limited to their television broadcasts.
The European Union will ban what she claimed to be "the Kremlin's media machine," calling the act an "unprecedented" step.
The Association of European Journalists on Saturday called on the EU to ban RT all over the bloc and "remove" its journalists.
RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan, sanctioned by the EU just a few days ago, responded to the latest ban by assuring the agency's journalists that "not a single person who faithfully worked and continues to work for us will be laid off in any country."
Germany's broadcasting regulator had banned the transmission of Russia's RT Deutsch-speaking broadcaster in the country.
