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Wall Street Journal / Sam Schechner, Miles Kruppa, and Evan Gershkovich
/ Aug 9“So far, Russia has stopped short of making internet providers block access to YouTube, as it did with Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook and Instagram, Twitter Inc. and even Google’s own Google News service. Among major non-Russian social platforms that offer broad access to independent news, only the chat app Telegram has similarly avoided being shut off. The result is Russians now live behind a digital iron curtain, albeit one with significant gaps.” —
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Russia,
YouTube