Twitter to comply with EU sanctions on Russian State Media amid Russia- Ukraine war crisis including multiple cyber-attacks in Ukraine.

 Twitter showed its inclination to follow the Sanctions and will focus to reduce the visibility of the content from RT and Sputnik.

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Twitter is ready to comply with EU sanctions and will withhold the Russian content.
The platform said it will comply with the orders once they come into effect.
Other platforms like Google and Meta have suppressed RT and Sputnik.

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Twitter will continue to focus on mitigating the circulation of Russian posts outside the EU. The social media giant platform Twitter officially said in a statement that it will comply with the orders of the European Union.

Twitter said “the European Union sanctions will likely legally requires us to withhold certain content in EU member state,” Twitter’s spokesperson said in a post.

“It also told that we intend to comply with the orders once it goes into effect,”

The chief of the European Union said that the commission needs approval by late on Tuesday from the nations that come in the members for the ban on the kremlin- Backed outlets.

Twitter said it will continue to focus on reducing the visibility of the content from those outlets as well as labeling it.

Russia-Ukraine war shocked the worldas the Russian President ordered its Special Military Operation in Ukraine. Other powerful nations including the US are trying to stop the war but neither of them can stop after Vladimir Putin states a warning statement as ‘if any country will try to stop Russia in Ukraine will get an immediate response that never has been seen in the history.

Nations that wanted to soothe the situation in Europe are imposing huge sanctions on Russia and now European Union also imposed many sanctions and Twitter is also a part of the implications of these sanctions.

Many other social media sites Facebook owner Meta, Alphabet’s Google, and YouTube including Twitter have said they are continuously blocking access to the news agency of Russia as RT and Sputnik in the European Union. The social media giant company said it is also demoting the content related to this news agency of Russia.

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