MOSCOW: Russia said on Friday that TikTok had deleted some of what it called illegal posts promoting weekend protests aimed at securing the release of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.Posts promoting Navalny and protests planned for Saturday have been viewed more than 300 million times on TikTok, the Chinese-owned video sharing app, since he was jailed this week after flying back to Russia for the first time since being poisoned by a military-grade nerve agent.
Russian investigators said they had opened a criminal case into what they described as an attempt to get minors to commit illegal acts that could endanger their safety.Citing COVID-19 risks, they said mass public events, which are banned in Moscow because of the pandemic, were a real risk to their health.
Roskomnadzor said YouTube had deleted 50per cent of the posts that the regulator said had urged minors to protest, and that Instagram had taken down 17per cent of those posts.Students across Russia have posted videos of themselves taking down portraits of Putin hanging on the walls of classrooms and swapping them for pictures of a grinning Navalny.
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