The Anatomy of the Information Blockade against Russia
... Russian information sources. At the same time, the scale of technological blocking exceeds the legal one: according to data compiled by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, by mid-2025 YouTube had removed more than 9,000 channels linked to Russian media; Meta [ 1 ] and TikTok blocked RT and Sputnik in 27 EU countries; DSA algorithms identified and blocked more than 15,000 accounts as “sources of Russian propaganda” (including personal blogs of EU citizens not affiliated with Russian media); ...