Russian diplomatic spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that Western media and journalists would be expelled from Russia if the YouTube platform blocked its weekly briefings, as it has already done.
Several sites and social networks, including YouTube, explained that they blocked Russian media and official pages after Russia’s offensive in Ukraine because they were under sanctions or committed disinformation. acts of censorship russophobesaccording to Moscow.
Maria Zakharova explained that she told the American online video giant that if its weekly press conference, to be broadcast live, would be blocked then. an american journalist or media goes homeaccording to TASS.
Another blockage briefing, and we’ll give a concrete name, a concrete mediahe threatened, before adding that it could also be of concern to media from other countries, because it is powered by YouTube a woman with a polish passporta reference to Susan Wojcicki, the platform boss.
” Given Poland’s position (vis-à-vis Russia), we probably won’t limit (revenge) to the Americans. “
The diplomat’s briefings were not systematically blocked by YouTube, which, however, stopped some of them.
Source: Radio-Canada
