Cairo - Samia Sayed - While Russian missiles fell on the Ukrainian cities, another battle broke out on the Internet, as Moscow has intensified its efforts to control the content that is being circulated in the news media and technology platforms, while major technology companies such as Facebook and Google imposed restrictionsThe state -controlled Russian media in Ukraine and around the world must.
Last Friday, Russia said it would partially restrict Facebook, a step that "Mita" - the parent company of Facebook - came after it rejected a government request to stop an independent scrutiny of the facts in many Russian government media, and by Saturday, he saidTwitter also that his service was restricted to some Russian users.
The download of photos and videos on Facebook was slower after announcing the slowdown, according to users, while Facebook Messenger had long periods of not downloading at all, and on mobile devices, Twitter has been slow - it has been the subject of punitive slowdown since March.
موقف شركات التكنولوجياFor technology companies, the confrontation is the latest step in the ongoing confrontation with Russia, as the platforms risk the restrictions imposed by the government in the country, as it seeks to impose censorship on opponents with the protection of the state -run media.
The main social media, video and broadcast platforms from Facebook are exposed to Tek Tok and TCC to increase pressure to combat lies on their conflict platforms, including the spread of misleading shots, and the escalation of the Russian conflict with big technology comes days before the deadline that Moscow set for foreign technology companiesThe Great to comply with a new law that requires them to establish an official representation in the country, which may facilitate the Kremlin.
This comes after a series of fines and slowdown cases imposed on the platforms that the Russian government said has failed to remove illegal content.
Before the deadline for the month of March, a list on the Internet prepared by Russian Telecom Organization Roskomnadzor or "Federal Communications Control, Information Technology and Media Control" showed that Apple, Spitevay and Viber only have fulfilled all the three requirements of the law on Sunday.
It is an account with the organizer, giving users a way to communicate directly with the company, and establish an acting office.
عداوة روسيا مع شركات التكنولوجيا:وهذا الشهر ، هددت روسيا الشركات بفرض حظر على الإعلانات إذا لم تمتثل، وقال مسؤولون روس إن القيود الأكثر صرامة التي يمكن أن تتبعها تشمل تباطؤ السرعة أو الحظر التام، وتواجه شركات التكنولوجيا الكبرى أيضًا عبء تقييم مطالب المسؤولين الأوكرانيين والمتعاطفين في جميع أنحاء العالم الذين دعواهم لطرد المستخدمين الروس من خدماتهم لوقف انتشار المعلومات الكاذبة ، مع الحفاظ أيضًا على وصول المعارضين إلى الأدوات الرقمية الحيوية.On Sunday, the head of global affairs in Meta tweeted that the closure of Facebook and Instagram in Russia would "silence the important expression at a critical time", and it was clear that others through the technological scene were struggling with similar dilemmas.
Just minutes after he said in a publication on Sunday that the Telegram correspondence application will consider restricting some channels to publish false information, the company's founder Pavel Dorov said that the company will not do so after receiving comments from users.
فرض قيودكانت أنشطة وسائل الإعلام التي تسيطر عليها الدولة مثل RT و Sputnik ، والتي تعرضت لعقوبات الاتحاد الأوروبي الجديدة يوم الأحد ، مصدرًا رئيسيًا للصراع بين موسكو ومنصات التكنولوجيا الكبرى.Roskomandzur has warned the local media against publishing what she called "false information" about Moscow's military operation, and prohibited the use of the words "invading" and "assault" to describe its attack on Ukraine, and the Russian technology giant Yandex began warning the Russian users looking for news about newsUkraine on its search engine on unreliable online information.
Russia describes its actions as a "special operation" that it says is not designed to occupy land, but to destroy the military capabilities of Ukraine and the arrest of individuals who consider them dangerous nationalists - something that the government in Kyiv and Western powers say is an unfounded propaganda.
The presence of the media has always been controversial on the main social platforms, and some describe these accounts in an attempt to be more transparent about the source of the information.
Amid the Russian invasion, Facebook, Twitter, Google and the video broadcast service took new measures to restrict Russian government media from making money from advertisements on its sites, as the Twitter platform banned advertisements from the state -backed media, and said that it temporarily stopped all advertisements in Russia and Ukraine to guaranteeSeeing public safety information.
Google, the world's largest advertising company, said it does not allow Russian government media to sell ads using its tools, and Facebook and Google also said they imposed restrictions on reaching some government media accounts in Ukraine at the request of the Ukrainian government, and Google said on SundayIt prohibited the RT application downloads on the mobile phone in Ukraine in response to a governmental legal request.
With Western companies starting attention to new economic sanctions against Russia and increasing pressure to combat misleading information over the Internet, experts say the fighting between Russia and the most powerful technology companies may intensify.
