Anton Gorelkin, deputy chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on Information, Technology and Communications Policy, announced his country’s intention to withdraw the decision to ban meta in Russia..

He explained that the court ruling banning the activities of meta in Russia, including social networks on Facebook and Instagram, would be revoked if the company officially acknowledged the violations and corrected them, and instead lifted the ban on meta accounts. Return to the Russian media and the public and to commitment to a policy of impartiality. “

Earlier today, the Russian judiciary banned the use of Facebook and Instagram in Russia due to their extremist activities, following the announcement by a Moscow-based Dverskoy court that it would immediately implement the ruling against two applications belonging to the US company Meta..

Meta is the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, and the court ruled that WhatsApp, the company’s own messaging app, was not affected by the move because it was not used as a means of disseminating information to the public..

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