Moscow, Russia’s financial watchdog has added US tech giant Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, to a list of organisations involved in terrorism and extremism, the latest escalation against the company since President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine.
Russia’s Federal Financial Monitoring Service Rosfinmonitoring announced this on Tuesday, the official Tass news agency reported. Rosfinmonitoring said “amendments have been made to the list of organisations and individuals in respect of which there is information about their involvement in extremist activities or terrorism.” There was no reaction from Meta to the latest Russian government’s move.
A Russian court in March had banned Facebook and Instagram in the country, labelling its parent company Meta as “extremist” amid the Kremlin’s crackdown on western social media giants.
