Both Apple and Google have also removed apps from these outlets from their app stores.īut most other platforms, including Meta, TikTok and YouTube, are merely demoting or downranking Russian state-backed channels in the United States, though they are banning them outright in the European Union. The National Association of Broadcasters has called for US broadcasters to stop airing RT, RT America and Sputnik News so far only DirectTV and Roku has complied. Canada and the EU have both banned Russian state programming from their airwaves in recent days, and both outlets are under investigation in the UK.īut it’s still pretty easy to view such Kremlin-backed outlets in the US. Critics say both outletsfunction as propaganda tools for the Russian government and their foreign policy interests. Spotify will also yank RT and Sputnik News off its platform, both Kremlin-funded news outlets with a massive global audience. “We think it’s critically important to try to keep our service operational in Russia to allow for the global flow of information,” according to the statement provided to Variety by a Spotify spokesperson. Users in Russia will still be able to access Spotify. So far, Spotify, TikTok and Apple have opened offices in Russia. But the law is new enough that most of the companies impacted (a list that includes Meta, Twitter and Telegram) have yet to comply. The streaming platform had just opened a representative office in Moscow last month, after a new Russian law required foreign tech companies with an audience of over 500,000 users to establish an office in the nation by 2022. Spotify has shut down its Moscow operations indefinitely in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, reported Variety. Amrita Khalid is a contributing writer at Engadget.
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