Facebook and Meta company logos on smartphone and monitor screensWASHINGTON, Mar 15 Group of six U.S. lawmakers are urging Meta to take a more firm stand against China's state-run media that allegedly promotes a pro-Russian stance on Ukraine through ads, Axios reports, citing a letter addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. accounts» that allegedly buy ads and spread «pro-Russian narratives» about the military operation in Ukraine.Zelensky thanked Meta for calling for violence against Russians. The appeal cites as an example the dissemination on Facebook by Chinese publications of «false information» that Russia's goal in Ukraine is American biological laboratories. «This … must be met with a strong, coordinated response from the public and private sectors,» the letter said. The lawmakers called on the company to answer a series of questions by March 31. They want to know what steps Meta is taking to prevent the spread of Russian «disinformation» through non-Russian accounts, and whether the company will expand its measures that ban state media from buying ads worldwide. The lawmakers also wanted to know how much Chinese broadcasters spent on advertising and who it was directed at. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the Russian President emphasized. I'll have to denazify her.
