On 18 March 2022, the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) sent a letter to Google, YouTube's parent company, demanding it to stop the distribution of advertising messages with “threats against citizens” of Russia. Roskomnadzor stated that YouTube users were distributing commercials calling for the railway communications of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus to be disabled. Roskomnadzor claimed that the advertising messages displayed on YouTube contain information of a “terrorist nature”. Roskomnadzor thus required Google to revise its policy regarding content moderation of advertising and stop the spread of “anti-Russian videos”.
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