Expert: We are ready for the scenario of Facebook and Twitter disappearing from smart phone screens

In Russia, global social networks are accused of exercising censorship over accounts and links belonging to many categories of citizens,

Including accounts and links belonging to official institutions, officials, MPs, the media, journalists, social figures and other people. The authorities are also calling on these major companies not to publish prohibited and dangerous materials socially and psychologically, and prohibited from circulation according to local laws.

However, the social media giants, led by Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Tik Tok, have rejected most of these invitations and instead promote accounts behind suspicious groups, political interests, or parties.

Promote extremist ideologies under the pretext of freedom of expression.

How does the Russian state deal with these problems? Have these platforms turned into branches of major Western politics and interests as some believe, or do they remain the last reliable bastion of freedom of opinion?

They followed this file in Artium Kapchuk’s interview with the guests of the “Russian Dimensions” program, namely, Ilya Massuh, former deputy minister of Russian communications and mass communication and head of the Information Democracy Fund, and Dr. Ivan Surma, member of the Working Group on Combating Extremism and Terrorism at the Russian Foreign Ministry and Head of the Chair of Governmental Administration in Foreign Policy of the Russian Diplomatic Academy