Move comes hours after Moscow said it was limiting access to Facebook amid fact-checking dispute and invasion of Ukraine

Facebook says it has restricted Russian state media’s ability to earn money on the social media platform as Moscow’s invasion of neighbouring Ukraine reached the streets of Kyiv.

“We are now prohibiting Russian state media from running ads or monetising on our platform anywhere in the world,” Nathaniel Gleicher, the social media giant’s security policy head, said on Twitter on Friday.

He added that Facebook would “continue to apply labels to additional Russian state media”.

Facebook’s parent company Meta said earlier on Friday that Russia would hit its services with restrictions after it refused authorities’ order to stop using fact checkers and content warning labels on its platforms

Social media networks have become one of the fronts in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, home to sometimes misleading information but also real-time monitoring of a quickly developing conflict that marks Europe’s biggest geopolitical crisis in decades.

“Yesterday, Russian authorities ordered us to stop the independent fact-checking and labelling of content posted on Facebook by four Russian state-owned media organisations,” Meta’s Nick Clegg said in a statement. “We refused.”

His statement came hours after Russia’s media regulator said it was limiting access to Facebook, accusing the American tech giant of censorship and violating the rights of Russian citizens.

On Wednesday, Facebook also released a feature in Ukraine that allows people to lock their profiles for increased security, using a tool the company also deployed after Afghanistan fell to the Taliban last year.

Gleicher said Facebook had set up a special operations centre to monitor the situation in Ukraine “in response to the unfolding military conflict”

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/26/facebook-bans-russia-state-media-from-running-adverts-monetising

The aim of the United State and its European allies is to peel Ukraine away from the Soviet orbit and incorporate it into the West. Their basic goal has been to make Ukraine a Western Bulwark on Russia's border and Russia is not having it.

There are three key strategies....

NATO Expansion: Since the Cold war ended starting with the Clinton's administration, America has been moving NATO eastward towards Russian border and the Russians have said that they will not have it.

European Union(E.U) Expansion: Its all about integrating Ukraine economically into the West just the way America is in the process of integrating or polling the Czech republic, Slovakia the Baltic states into the West and of course America is doing that with NATO as well, these are two sets of institutions, NATO military institution, the E.U and economic institution and the idea again is to take Ukraine, peel it away from Russia and make it part of the West.

Fostering Orange Revolution: Its all about promoting "Democracy" in Ukraine and other places and the United State runs around trying to topple regimes and put in place democratically elected regimes and we know how hard it is to be against promoting democracy because we all love it.

If you are Vladimir Putin or part of the leadership in Beijin, when the United State talks about democracy promotion that means toppling your regime, so you should not be surprise that they do not like that idea is Beijin and they don't like it in Moscow as well. The Chinese believes that the United State are behind the protest in Hong Kong, the truth is that the Chinese political elite do not like democracy because it is pro America or West.

Monroe Doctrine: The Western hemisphere is our backyard and nobody from a distant region is allowed or permitted to move military forces into the Western hemisphere. This was why America went crazy at the idea of the Soviets putting military forces in Cuba, "This is unacceptable nobody puts military forces in the Western hemisphere, that is what the Monroe Doctrine is all about"(Cuba Missile Crisis).

Can we imagine 20years from now, a powerful China forming a military alliance with Canada, Mexico and moving Chinese military forces unto Canadian and Mexican soil while America is just standing there and saying..there is no problem, we are all 20th and 21st century people worrying about Chinese forces, what's with these 19th century people like Putin worrying about..America will not say this, infact America will say "this ain't going to happen, we are going to maintain the Monroe doctrine with regards to China just as we did with the Soviet Union during the Cold war, so nobody should be surprised that the Russians were apoplectic about the idea of America putting Ukraine on the Western side of the ledger.

America is the biggest hypocrite with so much double standard. They use the power of the press via propaganda to justify their falsehood or half truth by portraying themselves as the defender of peace, truth and humanity.

Putin is dangerously patriotic, he is the best kind of man needed for Russian survival at this time of aggressive Western imperialism. However, if America was not playing double standard or accussing Russia of what they have successfully done in other places, I would have said Vladimir Putin is that man to be tamed so as to maintain global peace.

What America is doing right now was what France and Britain were pushing Poland then, promising Poland of help in case Germany attacks but did nothing to give Poland tanks and planes but when Germany attacked, they did nothing. And when Germany was defeated, they sold out Poland to the then Soviet Union even when Polish soldiers and pilots fought in their thousands to defend Britain.

America knew exactly what to do to push Russia to war…..this isn’t hard to figure out; US would have gone to war if the Cuban missile crisis continued. I think the owners of US used Ukraine to achieve a purpose which is to cut off European gas supply by Russia….that supply deficit would be filled in by America oil companies.

Ukrainian President should have been wise enough to give a little bit to Europe and a little bit to Russia to keep the balance…the geopolitical location of Ukraine demands such….this was the position Belgium prior to Second World War and they chose no sides...Ukraine has refused to learn from history.

N.B Any reasonable government will maintain policy of non alignment at this point and prepare for the possible economic impact the Russia Ukraine NATO crisis will have on global economy including Nigeria

Righteousness2:
In all my life and years of Watching, there has never been such a CONVERGENCE of Signs of Endtimes just as the Bible says.

Something bigger and wider than what we are witnessing now Might Just be in the offing...

Stay Focus! Search and research yourself to ensure nothing is standing between you and GOD.
Completely Surrender to JESUS Christ! Live Ready! JESUS is Coming..

Take your imaginary creature outta here..he has no business here..what nonsense end time is he hosting..

How long will Nigerians come to realize that there ain't no imaginary creature nowhere and no end time nonsense is happening..

Righteousness2:
In all my life and years of Watching, there has never been such a CONVERGENCE of Signs of Endtimes just as the Bible says.

Something bigger and wider than what we are witnessing now Might Just be in the offing...

Stay Focus! Search and research yourself to ensure nothing is standing between you and GOD.
Completely Surrender to JESUS Christ! Live Ready! JESUS is Coming..

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Wonderful

Damn

Righteousness2:


Can you imagine what a terrible shock it will be for some folks, when they lift up their eyes in Hell?

You were wise in your own eyes,
you felt the Gospel was a huge disturbance, you felt there is no GOD, you hated and scorned "righteousness the preacher",
you had all the goodies of life but you Never knew or accepted the LORD JESUS Christ! And you died and you lifted up your eyes in Hell!
What a horrible moment that will be!

In your own Interest, take the Warnings, Admonishments and Messages very Serious, so you don't be like the rich fool who died, opened his eyes in Hell and was begging Father Abramham to send Lazarus to go and warn his brothers on Earth about Hell Fire!

Well that doesn't change the fact..he has no issue here cos he's not just here..you get?

Russia is getting it very hot from all angle.
Putin there's still small time for you to order your troops back home, before the US and UN declare you wanted.

Perfect

Thooorrr

Wow

Stop War Everywhere. All lives Matter

Another dimension of sanctions

The gang up against my dear Russia is just too much.

But unfortunately for these globalists, Russia no send anybody.

Russia should just LET GO... A tree can never make a forest

Great! Twitter should follow!

That poverty enclave needs to be isolated

Twitter, Instagram, etc to follow. More like everyone throwing their punches at Russia, no matter how small the punch is

I don't support this big tech sensorship and I don't support putin and putin would pay the price because the world is against putin and Russia now

Dbull on this one!!!



I think am also calling off my show in Russia

Me; waiting for pro Russia urchins to come and mastvrbate their ignorance...

Good riddance

U.S should just do the needful and end NATO to stop all this rubbish

medropoly:
Russia should just LET GO... A tree can never make a forest

Short people are very stubborn

What you stated is what the Kremlin dwarf fails to realize.