After the invasion of Ukraine, Russia decided to close the Facebook platform on the grounds that it was biased. But Russia sanctions continued with the Instagram ban. The Meta group, with its new name, responded harshly to Russia and Putin, who decided to close both Facebook and Instagram.
Facebook, which established a special team after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and tagged the shares of the Russian media, drew the reaction of Russia. Russia declared Facebook an “extremist organization”, which was closed on Putin’s orders.
Russia gave additional time for Instagram ban! Here is the date
Russia decided to postpone the Instagram ban and gave a date for Russian users. Accordingly, Russian users have an additional 48 hours.
Rough Putin criticism from Facebook after Russia Instagram ban
From the first day of the occupation of Ukraine, Russia drew the reaction of the western world, especially the NATO countries. The reactions, which appeared as condemnation in the first days, reached a serious level with the embargo decisions taken one after the other.
Meta COO, Operations Manager, Sheryl Sandberg, in an interview this week, claims that Russia’s decision to shut down Facebook and ban Instagram is based on the fact that it sees Facebook as a threat.
In this sense, Sandberg made a comment on the subject that would anger Russia and Putin. “Social media is bad for dictators, so Putin overthrew us,” Sandberg said.
This statement of Meta has not received a reaction from Russia for the time being. However, according to the US media, this statement is rather insincere. In particular, although the Facebook platform disturbs the dictators, it also has algorithms that serve them.
Accordingly, Facebook has an algorithm that previously censored dissident voices, posts and groups in many autocratic countries. Although Facebook argues that this is a misunderstanding, Meta’s record in this sense is quite high. Manipulations on Facebook are still in mind in the US elections, in which Trump was elected president.
Russia-Ukraine war and sanctions decisions
Russia after its long friction with UkraineI February 24, 2022It started to invade the territory of Ukraine at around 6 am in the morning. The whole world predicted that Russia would only enter the Donbass region, located in the Northeast of Ukraine. The operation, which started in order to protect the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic, which declared its independence in this region and recognized by Russia, later became the capital of Ukraine. Kyiv expanded to its neighbors.
Russia, where many countries in the world started to impose embargo, is the western world. swift It also removed it from important financial systems such as This ban attempt, which extends to Russian athletes, artists and even to Russian works of art, continues increasingly. Russia, on the other hand, does not withdraw from the occupied regions despite all the harsh sanctions decisions.