Russia says Facebook outage shows why it needs internet sovereignty | Malay Mail

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MOSCOW, Oct 5 — Russian social networks reported a spike in activity during yesterday’s global Facebook outage which Moscow officials said showed that Russia was right to develop its own sovereign internet platforms and social networks. Russia has sought for years to assert greater sovereignty...

MOSCOW, Oct 5 — Russian social networks reported a spike in activity during yesterday’s global Facebook outage which Moscow officials said showed that Russia was right to develop its own sovereign internet platforms and social networks.

Maria Zakharova, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, said during the near six-hour outage of Facebook services yesterday evening that this “answers the question of whether we need our own social networks and internet platforms”.

 

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