MOSCOW, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Russia has restricted entry to music-streaming app SoundCloud citing “false info” about what Moscow calls a “particular navy operation” in Ukraine, Interfax information company reported on Sunday, quoting communications watchdog Roskomnadzor (RKN).
Russia has battled huge tech corporations to regulate the circulate of knowledge after it despatched troops to Ukraine on Feb. 24, slowing Twitter’s service and banning Meta’s Fb and Instagram.
“Roskomnadzor restricted entry to the SoundCloud service in reference to placement of supplies containing false info relating to the character of the particular navy operation on the territory of Ukraine,” Interfax mentioned citing RKN.
It mentioned entry to the service was blocked on the behest of the Russian Prosecutor Basic’s Workplace, including that the knowledge in query associated to the particular operation’s kind and strategies of warfare together with “assaults on civilians, strikes on civilian infrastructure, about quite a few civilian casualties by the hands of Russian troopers”.
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