The social networking site TikTok announced on Sunday that it is suspending the possibility of posting new videos on its platform from Russia, due to the new Russian legislation that criminalizes the transmission of news aimed at “discrediting” the Russian army on the occasion of the invasion of Ukraine.
“Because of the new ‘fake news’ law, we have no choice but to suspend (…) the posting of new content (…) until we consider the potential security implications,” TikTok employees and users explained. the social media with a series of posts on Twitter.
Russian authorities restricted access to Twitter last week and completely blocked Facebook.
TikTok did not specify whether the videos posted from abroad will be available to users of the platform.
The decision of this social networking site, which has more than one billion users worldwide, also has a diplomatic dimension, as TikTok is a subsidiary of the Chinese company ByteDance.
China has close ties with Russia and has so far not condemned the invasion of Ukraine.
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