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Kremlin Cracks Down on Independent News, Blocks Facebook and Twitter

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    MAR 2022
    Image copyright: Reuters [via Al Jazeera]
    story last updated DEC 2022

    The Spin

    Pro-establishment narrative

    Russia is strangling media freedom and access to information in an attempt to hide war crimes of its illegal invasion of Ukraine and surpress internal dissent.

    New York Times

    Establishment-critical narrative

    The Western world is just as guilty of surpressing media freedom. Russian outlets like RT and Sputnik are officially banned in the EU as part of a larger package of sanctions. Major tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and Telegram have also scrubbed them.

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