Russia has restricted access to Google News within the country, accusing the company of promoting false information about the war in Ukraine.
, owner of the second-largest search engine Bing, halted the sale of products and services, including ads, in Russia earlier this month as well.
"We can confirm that we're taking additional steps to clarify, and in some instances expand our monetization guidelines as they relate to the war in Ukraine," a Google spokesperson said in a statement to"This builds on our current restrictions on Russian state-funded media, as well as our ongoing enforcement against content that incites violence or denies the occurrence of tragic events.
Russian-owned state media reported that Roskomnadzor, Russia's communications regulator, had acted at the request of the prosecutor general in restricting access to Google News over the promotion of"false information" about the war in Ukraine. "The aforementioned American online news resource provided access to numerous publications and materials containing unreliable socially significant information about the course of a special military operation on the territory of Ukraine," the regulator said, according to TASS, a state-owned media network.
Hundreds of companies have closed their stores, pulled their business and stopped selling products in Russia in the month since the invasion began,
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