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Despots like Putin and Lukashenko rule by isolating and lying to their people. Here are four strategies to fight disinformation and protect anti-war voices in Russia and Belarus.

A “Washington Post” report says Apple removed Alexei Navalny’s Smart Voting app after a representative of the company was visited by Federal Security Service (FSB) agents. (The FSB is basically the successor to the Kremlin.) From the Post: Russian agents came to the home of Google’s top executive in

Google officials say the supposed FSB agents gave an order to the female Google executive to either take the app down in 24 hours or be jailed.

Instagram users in Russia have been notified that the service will shut down at midnight on Sunday, after Meta Platforms said it would allow users to post messages calling for violence.

A new report from The Washington Post claims Apple pulled the Alexei Navalny Smart Voting app from its App Store after a "main representative" of the company was visited by FSB agents.

Russian agents reportedly targeted Google and Apple employees based in the country with prison time.

The app was affiliated with Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Russian agents last September ordered Googles top executive in Moscow to take down an app that had drawn the ire of Russian President Vladimir Putin within 24 hours or be taken to prison. An Apple representative faced a similar ordeal. Google and Apple did as they were told.

Former Russian president and deputy head of Russian security council says international sanctions should be responded to with forced nationalisation of Western assets and property

Reface, an a16z-backed synthetic media app that’s developed out of Ukraine, has added push notifications informing its ~200 million-strong global user-base about Russia’s invasion of the country — urging people to #StandWithUkraine, including by watermarking face-swapped videos created with the app. All videos created in the app are now being watermarked with the Ukrainian flag […]