Prosecutor General’s Office wants access to Instagram restricted

MOSCOW, Mar 11 (PRIME) -- The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has requested the communications service limit access to social network Instagram, part of U.S. company Meta, which also owns Facebook and What’sUp, the authority said on Friday in a statement.

“In light of the special military operation held by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on protection of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic, information is distributed on social network Instagram with calls to commit acts of violence (murder) against the citizens of the Russian Federation, including the military, as well as information with the calls to the citizens on the territory of the Russian Federation to participate in mass riots with violence,” it said.

“In view of this, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia sent to the communications service a request to restrict access to social network Instagram.”

The Prosecutor General’s Office earlier found Facebook involved in violation of basic human rights and freedoms, the rights and freedoms of the Russians people, guaranteeing freedom of mass information.

On the basis of the decision, the communications service restricted access to Instagram and Facebook.

Andrei Klishas, chairman of the constitutional legislation committee at the Federation Council, the parliament’s upper house, told PRIME, “This is a right position, I welcome this view. Meta’s actions fit the extremism notion.”

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