The Nation
Facebook and Twitter said at the weekend they were barring Russian state-linked media from running ads or making money off of their platforms in response to Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine.
Nathaniel Gleicher, the head of policy security at Meta, Facebook’s parent company, said “Russian state media” were banned from “running ads or monetizing on our platform anywhere in the world.”
Twitter said it was “temporarily pausing advertisements in Ukraine and Russia to ensure critical public safety information is elevated and ads don’t detract from it.”
Google earlier said it was blocking Russian state-owned media from making money off ads on their websites, apps and YouTube, citing “extraordinary circumstances in Ukraine.”
“We’re actively monitoring…
