Russia to probe Facebook after Telegram crackdown


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 19 Apr 2018

A 3D-printed Facebook dislike button is seen in front of displayed Russian flag in this illustration taken October 25, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

MOSCOW: Russia’s telecoms watchdog plans to probe Facebook before the end of the year after blocking access in the country to the popular messaging app Telegram, its head said on Wednesday. 

“We will conduct a probe of the company before the end of 2018,” the head of state regulator Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, told pro-Kremlin newspaper Izvestia.  

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