Facebook and Meta logos on smartphone and monitor screensMOSCOW, Mar 12Vladimir Dzhabarov, the first deputy head of the international committee of the Federation Council, Vladimir Dzhabarov, said that the owners of Meta would still regret the loss of the Russian market. Roskomnadzor on Friday, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, restricted access to Instagram in the country due to calls for violence against Russians. Later, the department clarified that it would complete the procedure for imposing restrictions on access to Instagram on the territory of the Russian Federation on March 14 at 0.00. «Russophobia has become the policy of this company. And they are quite actively using it. residents of a number of countries to post information containing calls for violence against the Russian military,» the senator wrote in his Telegram channel. Dzhabarov also noted that the reaction of the Russians was very revealing. He stressed that the decision of the Prosecutor General's Office to send an application to the court for the recognition of Meta Platforms Inc. extremist organization — absolutely true and justified. «I think that the owners of Meta will still regret that they lost such a market as Russia. We have several tens of millions using these accounts,» the senator said. He also noted that the decision of Roskomnadzor The blocking of Facebook in Russia followed repeated warnings of violations of Russian law. In light of the events in Ukraine, Meta Platforms temporarily lifted the ban on social networks Facebook and Instagram on calls for violence against the Russian military, but not against the civilian population of the Russian Federation, the spokesman said earlier Andy Stone Company. Nick Clegg, vice president of both social media operator Meta, said the new Facebook and Instagram policies would only apply in Ukraine. At the same time, he stressed that Meta will not tolerate Russophobia on its platforms and any discrimination against Russians.
