Earlier this week, Facebook announced restrictions to Russian media to “limit the spread of misinformation” about the war in Ukraine. Russia demanded that Facebook stop “fact-checking” content about the war on its platform, something Facebook refused to do.
Meta’s Vice President of global affairs Nick Clegg said the company would create a “Special Operations Center” to monitor content and curb the “abuse” of its platform. Clegg added that Facebook plans to take “extensive steps to fight the spread of misinformation, and labeling content from state-controlled media and content that fact-checkers have rated false.”
Russia appears to have retaliated by announcing it would restrict the social media platform.
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