Advertisers within Russia can no longer run ads on Facebook anywhere in the world, including their home country, the social network told Business Insider. Due to the difficulties of operating in Russia, the website has suspended all ads targeting people there.
This is the latest step that Facebook has taken. After the attacks began, it blocked Russian state media from running ads on its platform and restricted access to Sputnik in the EU. A few days after that, Facebook started demoting the outlets' pages and any post linking to them on its main website.
Russian telecom regulators blocked Facebook in response to the network's restriction of access to state-run media. The website was throttled before that when Facebook officials refused to stop fact-checking state media outlets. Meta's president of global affairs said in a statement that the company will continue to do everything it can to restore its services so they remain available to people to safely and securely express themselves and organize.
According to a report by independent Russian news agency Interfax, Russia has recently blocked the social networking site. After the social network paused ads and recommendations, and started labeling Russian state media outlets, the country's access to it was limited. The social network said that it is only seeing the effects of throttling within the region.
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