Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, has responded to the US government’s directive urging entities and nations abroad to ban all activities by Russian state broadcaster RT and other Moscow-funded networks. Meta on Tuesday announced it is booting RT from its apps globally, agreeing with the Biden administration on its charge of deceptive influence operations. “After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets. Rossiya Segodnya, RT and other related entities are now banned from our apps globally for foreign interference activity,” a Meta spokesman said. At this point no RT page or channel will be present on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads. RT’s Facebook page with 7.2 million followers has disappeared as has its Instagram page with one million followers. The Kremlin has responded on Tuesday blasting the move, saying: “With these actions, Meta is discrediting itself… This complicates the prospects for normalizing our relations with Meta.” And RT stated that “US Big Tech cannot stop RT from making its voice heard” while further pointing out “META/Facebook already blocked RT in Europe two years ago, now they’re censoring information flow to the rest of the world.” Washington starting last Friday took its war against […]