Russia included Meta on its list of "terrorist and extremist" groups

According to the news agency ANI, Russia has placed the US IT corporation Meta Platforms to its list of "terrorists and extremists" organisations

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The social networking site was labelled as extremist on March 21 after the Russian government claimed that

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it had selectively relaxed its regulations to permit Ukrainians to incite violence and use hate speech against Russian "invaders,"

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including calls for the assassination of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko

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Meta's appeal was denied by a Moscow court in June after it was deemed responsible for "extremist conduct" in Russia in March

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According to Reuters, at the time, Meta's attorney testified in court that

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Meta's attorney testified in court that Meta was not engaging in extremist activity and opposed to Russophobia

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Credit: Google

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