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Russia deplatforms everyone

How draconian new rules put misinformation in perspective

Casey Newton
Mar 8, 2022
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People fleeing war-torn Ukraine arrive on a train from Poland to Berlin on Sunday. (Carsten Koall / Getty Images)
People fleeing war-torn Ukraine arrive on a train from Poland to Berlin on Sunday. (Carsten Koall / Getty Images)

On Friday, Russia’s parliament passed laws that set out to accomplish a task many democracies had previously considered, but mostly stopped short of implementing: criminalizing misinformation. Making it a crime to spread “fake news” about Vl…

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