Russia and Ukraine share fewer things in common erstwhile it comes to their respective social media environments. Following the start of the full-scale invasion, Russia banned the usage of Meta’s platforms – Instagram and Facebook – in addition to the wholesale blocking of various home and abroad media outlets. Ukraine, for its part, blocked the Russian social network Vkontakte long before the invasion.
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