It was requested by Russia to cease fact-checking various news organisations’ material.
It’s been reported that Russia has restricted access to several of Meta’s services because the company refused to cease fact-checking assertions made by the government.
“Stop the independent fact-checking and labelling of information” submitted to Facebook by “four Russian state-owned” channels, according to Meta’s VP of Global Affairs, Nick Clegg. Refusing, Meta has had some of its services cut off.
On Tuesday, Russian authorities instructed us to cease fact-check and labelling anything posted on Facebook by four Russian state-owned media groups, citing our freedom of speech. We turned down the offer. As a consequence, they’ve declared that they’ll be limiting access to our services.
People in ordinary Russia are expressing themselves and organising for action by utilising our applications It’s important to us that they use social media to express themselves, exchange information, and organise, so encourage them to do so using Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger.
At a time when Russia is trying to keep a tight grip on the information spreading about its continuing assault against Ukraine, the move was made.
This shows that Russian news organisations wanted to be able to publish information on Meta’s platforms without the risk of it being detected as incorrect throughout the fact-checking process, according to Clegg’s reply As a result of Meta’s reluctance to halt such checks, Russia is now prohibiting its citizens from accessing several portions of the Meta ecosystem.