RKN named social networks that themselves are obliged to moderate prohibited information

According to representatives of the RKN, the register of social networks now includes eight largest foreign and

domestic sites. The list includes Russian VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, as well as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Likee, YouTube.

Roskomnadzor began forming a registersocial networks. As the department's press service reports, it was created in accordance with the law on self-control of social networks. According to it, Internet platforms must independently and independently identify and block prohibited content. At the end of last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the corresponding law on the creation of the register; it came into force in February 2021.

All Russians will be included in the “special list”and foreign social networks, whose traffic exceeds half a million users per day. VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Likee and YouTube will be required to delete content and any information that promotes extremism, the overthrow of the government and its insult to authorities, and also contains calls for ;mass riots. The document also mentions a ban on materials containing swear words.

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