FILE PHOTO: The logo of Russian television network Russia Today (RT) is seen on a board at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2017 in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 1, 2017. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin/File Photo
MOSCOW: Facebook has blocked a popular page run by Russian state TV channel RT, the channel’s editor said Feb 18, criticising the move as an attack on media rights.
“We had a subsidiary project in English, In the Now. The project was wildly popular – 2.5 billion views and four million subscribers on Facebook alone!” RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said on her Telegram social network account.
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