YouTube blocks Russian channels RT, Sputnik in Europe amid war with Ukraine

Mar 1, 2022
YouTube blocks Russian channels RT, Sputnik in Europe amid war with Ukraine

Fellow on-line large Fb took the same choice on Monday by blocking content material printed by RT and Sputnik within the European Union.

YouTube has blocked Russian channels RT and Sputnik in Europe “considering the continuing warfare in Ukraine”, the video-sharing platform stated on Tuesday.

“We’re blocking the YouTube channels of RT and Sputnik in the entire of Europe with rapid impact. Our methods want a little bit time earlier than being totally operational,” YouTube stated in an electronic mail to AFP.

Fellow on-line large Fb took the same choice on Monday by blocking content material printed by RT and Sputnik within the European Union.

The state-backed media organisations are thought of mouthpieces of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime.

European Fee chief Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday introduced they and their subsidiaries could be banned from broadcasting within the bloc for spreading “lies to justify Putin’s warfare”.


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