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Russia's interior ministry has added the spokesman of U.S. technology company Meta to a wanted list according to its online database.

Meta communications director Andy Stone is “wanted under an article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation,” according to Russian state news agency TASS, citing an interior ministry database. Meta’s Facebook and Instagram are banned in Russia for what Moscow has called “extremist activities.” Stone has been on the list since February, Mediazona reports. And his arrest was ordered by a Russian court in absentia for “aiding terrorism,” Mediazona says.

Russia has added the spokesman of U.S. tech giant Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, to a wanted list, according to an online database maintained by the country's interior ministry.

Andy Stone was added to the list on Sunday, Russian state new reported, weeks after Russian authorities in October classified Meta as a ‘terrorist and extremist’ organisation.

Russia has added the spokesman of U.S. technology company Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, to a wanted list, according to an online database maintained by the country’s interior ministry.

According to Mediazona, an independent news website that covers Russia’s opposition and prison system, Stone was put on the wanted list in February 2022, but authorities made no related statements at the time and no news media reported on the matter until this week.

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Dado Ruvic/ReutersRussia reportedly added Meta spokesperson Andy Stone to a wanted list according to an online database maintained by the country’s interior ministry. Russian authorities classified Meta as a “terrorist and extremist” organization in October. In March, Russia’s federal Investigative Committee alleged that Meta incited violence against Russians in the wake of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 when Stone said Meta would start allowing “f...