Mar 10, 2021
A mobile phone user turns on Twitter application on his smartphone today in Moscow, Russia. Russian authorities say they have moved to slow down the speed of Twitter over its failure to remove the banned content an action that reflects the government s effort to tighten rules for social platforms. The state communications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, said it took action today to slow down the speed of uploading photo and video on Twitter after it failed to remove the content encouraging children suicides and containing information about drugs and children pornography. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
MOSCOW (AP) Russian authorities said today they are slowing down the speed of uploading photos and videos to Twitter over its failure to remove banned content part of growing efforts to clamp down on social media platforms that have played a major role in amplifying dissent.