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March 13, 2021 11:15:17 am Russia is slowing down the speed of Twitter in retaliation for what it described as a failure to remove banned content, according to a press release on Wednesday. Russia’s Roskomnadzor (Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media) referred to what it said was illegal content on Twitter containing child pornography, information about drug abuse, and calls for minors to commit suicide. According to the regulator,  as of March 11, 2021, more than 3,100 materials with prohibited information remained on Twitter, and there ...

Russia throttled access to the social media platform this week, accusing it of hosting illegal content.

The Russian internet regulator announced that Twitter will be slowed down in the country following the company's inaction in removing tweets.

‘The same Twitter that blocked Trump?’ Diplomat excoriates tech giant’s hypocrisy Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media took measures to initially decelerate Twitter’s loading speed by 100% on mobile gadgets and 50% on desktop devices Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova© Russian Foreign Ministry's press service/TASS   MOSCOW, March 11. /TASS/. The US-based microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, which complains about restrictions against its operations in Russia, appears to have ...

Russian regulator says Twitter could be blocked completely if it does not comply with government demands