Twitter logo. File photoMANAGUA, Apr 28US sanctions against Russia also apply to regions where American Internet platforms operate: recently, censorship on Twitter among Nicaraguans is aimed at active users who support Russia and the special operation in Ukraine, social media experts told RIA Novosti. because last week I was constantly talking about Russophobia, about how Russian athletes are punished, expelled from federations, not allowed to participate in environmental competitions. I equated Russophobia with fascism, because Russian books, ballet, Russian classical music were suddenly banned» , — the administrator of the @FloryCantoX project, digital activist Xochitl Araus, told the agency. Her page with 30,000 readers was blocked for 45 days for posts about censorship of Russian art, culture and sports, for the third time, so she began to promote her own space for discussions. Here in Nicaragua, there is a phenomenon: there is a minority of fanatics anti-everything who will swallow the discourse of the media machine about poor Ukraine being invaded by Russia. These are the same people who say that everything is bad in Nicaragua, but at the level of the population as a whole, people have very little faith in the discourse of the West,” Araus added. «/>The ambassador to Denmark spoke about cases of Russophobia Since the Sandinista revolution of the 1980s, the citizens of Nicaragua have en masse recognized the relations of friendship and cooperation with Russia that arose at that time, politically and ideologically identify themselves with Moscow, Carlos Tinoco, administrator of the El Tayacán digital portal, told RIA Novosti. that social media is dominated by the support of the government and the people of Russia, but there is also a lot of disinformation, attempts to embellish and manipulate to create a winning story for Ukraine. This has a detrimental effect on those who are ill-informed,” said Tinoko. international relations, noted that the censorship of the Russian media Sputnik and RT by the owners of Western social networks creates a disadvantage in the media struggle for the truth. Nicaragua — ed.) action eat within their communication platforms, and we have seen Sputnik, RT and other media censored on social media,” Gomez said. Residents of Lebanon organized a motor rally against RussophobiaAccording to the interlocutors, the strategic alliance of the Nicaraguan governments with Russia helped to convey to the population the causes of the conflict in Ukraine, its scope and consequences, in order to counter Russophobia in the Western world. Against the backdrop of the Russian operation to demilitarize Ukraine, the West applied thousands of restrictive measures against Moscow, including blocking the resources of the Sputnik agency and RT TV channels. The pages of these media outlets are not available to European users of the Google search engine, and their channels on YouTube and on the Meta* platforms are censored. Many local journalists who collaborate with the Russian media have been labeled «Media affiliated with the Russian government.»* Meta (Facebook and Instagram social networks) is banned in Russia as extremist.
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