The Russian regulator had announced on Friday a next “limitation” of the social network.
Le Monde
The Instagram Social Network, owned by American Giant Meta, has become inaccessible Monday, March 14 in Russia. The refresh in the application was impossible Monday morning, while the site was inaccessible without VPN, a bypass tool of censorship, found journalists from the France-Press agency (AFP).
Instagram is now also on the list of “restricted access” sites published by the Russian Telecommunications Constable, Roskomnadzor, joining Facebook, Twitter networks and several critical media with regard to Russian power.
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A Russian Parliament Commission had seized the regulator on Friday by asking him to block the social network, in retaliation after META confirmed having asked his moderators to show “tolerance” for antirussian messages, including certain forms. of violent messages.
Instagram is widely used in Russia, where the social network claims more than 60 million users, and is particularly used by small traders. It was the last large non-Russian social network still fully functional in the country, where Tiktok blocked new videos and access to content published from abroad. Telegram Messaging and Vkontakte, the Russian Facebook equivalent, remain accessible without disturbance.