Blackout of the list of people following private Instagram profiles based in Russia and Ukraine. In addition, Russian state-controlled media posts will be further down the story bar and will be penalized in the flow of content on the users’ wall. Those who decide to share posts from such accounts will see a notice explaining how what you are publishing comes from a Russian state entity. The same posts shared by profiles connected to Moscow will no longer be present in the ‘Explore’ and ‘Reels’ sections under “recommended” and those who already follow these profiles will no longer be able to see the list of their followers.
These are the new security measures for posts arriving from Russian and Ukrainian accounts introduced by Instagram. According to Meta, which manages the social network, the aim is to protect people who could be the subject of a complaint by the authorities, for their posts for or against the war and to contain the dissemination of potentially misleading content. In recent days, Facebook had also introduced similar measures.
The war seen on Yandex, the Google of the Russians
by Riccardo Luna
