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Russia tells Google to stop promoting Moscow protests on YouTube

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epa07766172 Participants of the Russian liberal opposition hold portraits of arrested activists during a rally protesting against unfair Moscow State Duma elections in the center of Moscow, Russia, 10 August 2019. The liberal opposition called their supporters to continue their protest actions against rejecting their candidates for Moscow City Duma elections, which are scheduled for 08 September. Reports say that about seven thousand protesters participate at the rally despite extremely wet and stormy weather. EPA-EFE/YURI KOCHETKOV

Russia’s state communications watchdog has called on Google to stop promoting “illegal mass events” on YouTube following renewed protests in Moscow.

Several YouTube channels broadcast live as tens of thousands of Muscovites took to the streets calling for free elections to the city’s legislature on Sunday.

The latest round of protests, estimated to be the largest in eight years, follows the exclusion of opposition and independent candidates from the city council’s elections.

The watchdog, Roscomandzor, said organisations had been buying advertising tools such as push notifications on the video platform to spread information about the protests.

It said if Google, which owns YouTube, did not act it would consider it as “interference in its sovereign affairs” and “hostile influence (over) and obstruction of democratic elections in Russia”.

Via Reuters/Euronews

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