... citizens of the Russian Federation" prohibits network owners from blocking user accounts under the threat of reprisals against the network as a whole.
The formulations used in the laws create a paradoxical picture. For example, a user writes on Twitter that someone is a bastard because he lives in Chertanovo district and works at the Zhilishchnik state budgetary institution. If the owner of Twitter does not restrict access to such an account, he will break the information law, and if he does,...
... entertaining distraction, an image boost for individual politicians.
The tendency towards the politicization of memes originated on the niche imageboards Reddit and 4chan before gradually making its way to the mainstream social networks, namely Facebook and Twitter. Indeed, it was on Reddit and 4chan that the Trump and Bernie Sanders supporters platforms were created (Sanders’ supports moved over to Trump’s side when he pulled out of the presidential race) and where the modern alt-right movement got ...
On April 12, 2018, Dostoevsky Library hosted a RIAC Urban Breakfast on «Facebook Wars and Twitter Protocol: What is Today’s Digital Diplomacy?»
The speakers included Oleg Shakirov, expert at the Center for Strategic Research and RIAC; Anton Gumensky, media researcher, lecturer at the faculties of journalism at MSU and MGIMO, RIAC expert; ...
... diplomats during the summer escalation of the Russia – US diplomatic confrontation.
Thirdly, strange as it may sound, he’s radically changed the role of press conferences and interaction with society. He’s not the first President of the USA who uses Twitter, but he is the first who has practically replaced official press conferences with it. Moreover, 21 million people were following an official account of 45
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