{"id":59149,"date":"2022-03-24T10:20:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T08:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=59149"},"modified":"2025-09-04T20:23:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:23:34","slug":"russia-blocks-google-news-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/russia-blocks-google-news-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia blocks Google News service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roskomnadzor blocked access to Google&#8217;s news aggregator in Russia. This, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/ekonomika\/14164367\\\">reports<\/a> by TASS, citing the agency&#8217;s press service.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>As Roskomnadzor explained, access to the service was restricted on the basis of a demand from the Russian Prosecutor General&#8217;s Office due to \\&#8221;ensuring access to materials containing false information about the course of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine\\&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Google News is a news aggregator, meaning that it displays publications from other media on a given topic or by search terms.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on the second day after Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine, Roskomnadzor <a href=\\\"https:\/\/novayagazeta.ru\/articles\/2022\/02\/26\/rkn-potreboval-ot-novoi-gazety-i-drugikh-smi-udalit-materialy-gde-proiskhodiashchee-v-ukraine-nazyvalos-voinoi-news\\\">demanded<\/a> that media remove materials describing the events as a war, and on March 1 <a href=\\\"https:\/\/novayagazeta.ru\/articles\/2022\/03\/01\/genprokuratura-potrebovala-ogranichit-dostup-k-saitam-ekha-moskvy-i-telekanala-dozhd-news\\\">blocked<\/a> the Dozhd channel&#8217;s websites and Echo of Moscow radio.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>On the night of March 4, Russian users encountered problems accessing Meduza, the BBC, Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty and Deutsche Welle.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Since March 23, Roskomnadzor <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/roskomnadzor-re-blocks-meduza-tjournal-and-bumaga\">blocked for the second time<\/a> Meduza and at least two more sites of independent Russian media\u2014TJournal and Bumaga.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roskomnadzor blocked access to Google&#8217;s news aggregator in Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1412,738,1817,96,27],"class_list":["post-59149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bans-and-restrictions","tag-google","tag-news","tag-roskomnadzor","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59150,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59149\/revisions\/59150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}