Moscow: On Friday, Facebook and multiple media sites including Meduza, Deutsche Welle, were partially down in Russia authorities crack down on critical voices as fighting escalates in Ukraine.
AFP journalists in Moscow were not able to access Facebook, as well as the sites of media outlets Meduza, Deutsche Welle, RFE-RL and the BBC’s Russian-language service. The monitoring NGO GlobalCheck also said the sites were partially down.
On its Telegram account, independent outlet Meduza said that its site was no longer available to “some of its users” in Russia, but added that it had not received notification from the authorities about a block.
Since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine last week, Russian authorities have stepped up pressure against independent media, though press freedoms in the country were already rapidly waning.
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