Major social networks aren’t done cracking down on Russian misinformation following that country’s invasion of Ukraine. As CNN‘s Donie O’Sullivan and CNBC report, Facebook and Twitter have both removed posts from Russia’s UK embassy over false claims surrounding the bombing of a maternity hospital in the Ukraine city of Mariupol. Russia claimed without evidence that a woman in a photo of the destroyed hospital was a “beauty blogger” and that the photo was staged.
Meta spokesperson Andy Stone told O’Sullivan a Facebook post violated rules about content that asserts a “violent tragedy did not occur.” Twitter’s representative, meanwhile, told CNBC multiple tweets broke rules surrounding the “denial of violent events.”
Russia has routinely promoted demonstrably false narratives surrounding the invasion of Ukraine, prompting Meta, Twitter, Google and others to restrict state-backed…
