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department is scrambling to respond to and you can expect very strong statements from the white house. a reminder here if you remember at the very beginning of the conflict, the beginning of russia s invasion of ukraine, moscow put into place this rule put into place this law that it said was to counter fake news, but that activists in media organizations simply saw as a censorship law and it required journalists. even western and journalists to use the language that moscow uses to not acknowledge that this is a war in ukraine, but rather a special military operation as president putin has called it time and time again, so huge concern now that potentially around those reporting restrictions. what activists would actually call censorship restrictions put into place that this american journalist has been detained. and again, you re gonna expect us officials now scrambling to find out the status of the safety of this journalists and trying to get that release that condemnation as quickly
many activists groups sought as actually was a censorship law that prevented journalists from even acknowledging that the war in ukraine is the war in ukraine , requiring them to use the language that moscow huge uses, which is the special military operation, so this is going to be extremely important. i would expect the state department in the united states is already scrambling to figure out what s happening. a lot of potential for escalation here. you mentioned this law, which russia introduced in the early days of the war, it calls to mind those scenes of russian journalists as well expressing forms of opposition to russia s invasion and the subsequent crackdown that we saw on them. i mean, what? what would you expect the response to be from the white house? absolutely expect strong condemnation. you will expect that the white house will say this is a journalist for a prominent american newspaper. for doing his job carrying out the very important job of being a free press and that