According to Tass, a Russian court upheld a March ruling that social media company Meta was guilty of Extremism.
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The decision from the Moscow City Court comes two months after Meta appealed the ruling which blocked the social media giant from conducting business in Russia.
Two complaints from Meta users that they were impacted by the ban were dismissed by the court.
Russia will continue to ban Facebook and other social media sites for a long time.
A person for Meta didn't reply to a request for comment.
In March of this year, Russia opened a criminal investigation against Meta and labeled it an Extremist organization after it was reported that Facebook had temporarily suspended its hate speech rules against Russia. Users were able to call for violence against Russians on the photo sharing site. The policy wouldn't allow posts that called for the murder of Russian leaders. In February, the Kremlin moved to limit access to Facebook after the social media site restricted access to some pro-Russia news media accounts. Meta argued that Russia was blocking efforts to conduct independent fact checks and label misleading content on Facebook. After the platforms took action to restrict the spread of Russian misinformation related to the Ukraine war, the Kremlin tried to ban a number of social media sites.
According to some reports, Russians have tried to get around social media bans. Demand for Virtual Private Networks that allow users to obscure their location to access websites that are not allowed in Russia rose by more than 2,000% on the day before the ban was imposed.
Meta lost an appeal over the "extremist activity" tag.
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