{"id":59020,"date":"2022-03-21T17:10:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T15:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=59020"},"modified":"2025-09-04T19:44:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:44:42","slug":"russian-court-recognises-meta-as-an-extremist-organisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/russian-court-recognises-meta-as-an-extremist-organisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian court recognises Meta as an extremist organisation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow recognised<\/a> Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, as an ‘extremist organisation’.<\/p>\n

Under the ruling, the blocking of Facebook and Instagram will begin immediately. The order does not extend to WhatsApp.<\/p>\n

The Prosecutor General’s Office stressed<\/a> that Russian citizens using Facebook and Instagram will not be prosecuted for extremism:<\/p>\n

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\u00abThe use of the company’s products by individuals and legal entities should not be regarded as participation in extremist activity\u00bb.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

note<\/a> that there are nuances for users \u2014 for example, buying advertisements on Instagram and Facebook may be considered funding an extremist organisation.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement officials will also be able to draw up a protocol against any site or shop that contains links to social networks or to a person distributing business cards with contact details on Instagram and Facebook \u2014 this is a public display of extremist organisation symbols.<\/p>\n

Vladimir Ozherelyev, a lawyer at RosKomSvobody, head of the Intellectual Property Practice at the Digital Rights Center, told ForkLog that legal liability for using blocked social networks cannot fall on all users at once, otherwise a substantial portion of Russia’s population would become extremists.<\/p>\n

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\u00abWe cannot rule out the imminent block of WhatsApp, but for now the messenger still has the ability to adjust its policies and algorithms to comply with the requirements of Russian law\u00bb, \u2014 he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The status of ‘extremist organisation’ is quite serious, said Dmitry Machikhin, founder of Bitnalog.com:<\/p>\n

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\u00abIn effect, this is a direct restriction on Russians’ use of these social networks, which will drive away both ordinary users and businesses\u00bb.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Earlier, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office demanded that Meta be recognised as an extremist organisation<\/a> because of the company’s statements about temporarily urging violence against Russian soldiers in cases relating to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

On 4 March Roskomnadzor had already blocked access to Facebook and Twitter. By 14 March the agency had restricted access to Instagram.<\/p>\n

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