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[global times report] according to reuters, meta, the parent company of facebook in the united states, announced on the 16th local time that it would ban russian official media such as rossiya segodnya and rt from using its application platform.

according to the report, the company said that the reason for banning these russian media from using the facebook platform was "using deceptive means to carry out covert influence operations online." reuters said that this ban marked a sharp escalation in the actions of the world's largest social media company against russian official media.

according to the report, meta wrote in a written statement, "after careful consideration, we have expanded the scope of ongoing enforcement of (measures) against russian state media organizations. the rt international news agency and other related entities are now banned from using our application platform worldwide due to foreign interference activities."

according to the report, meta also mentioned that the ban will be implemented in the next few days. in addition to facebook, meta's application platforms also include instagram, whatsapp, and threads.

reuters said the russian embassy did not immediately respond to a request for comment and the white house declined to comment.

according to afp on september 13, us secretary of state blinken accused russian media organization rt tv of being a "de facto branch of russian intelligence agencies" and being used "to deal with countries around the world." rt tv editor-in-chief simonyan said that before blinken made the above speech to reporters, she was "waiting with popcorn." she said on the social platform "telegram": "the us state department will declare that we are the best spies in the world. be prepared." according to the russian satellite news agency, simonyan also said in response to the new us sanctions that she "did not live in vain."