About 80 million people in Russia who use Instagram can no longer access the social media platform, after a ban imposed by the Kremlin came into effect.
/Russian prosecutors have begun the process through the courts of declaring the owner of Instagram, Meta, an "extremist organisation". They are also undertaking a criminal investigation.
Russia's media regulator Roskomnadzor has updated its list of "restricted" online resources to include Instagram. It joins Facebook, which was banned on 4 March over content that Russia called "discrimination". Media outlets in Russia have been ordered against using the words "assault, invasion, or declaration of war" to describe the situation in Ukraine - or they risk being blocked and fined.
The hashtag #WhatshappeninginMyanmar began trending last year when the military junta in Myanmar undertook a coup on 1 February 2021 and blocked citizens from accessing Facebook. "People haven't been able to send digital payments to each other or contact friends and relatives to see if they're alive," she said.
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