The Week That Was: the 6 things you need to know
The pan-European unity regarding measures and sanctions against Russia, with the aim of stopping the war, and the strong wave of support from nations around the world, made social media platforms to align with the general climate and impose measures to limit propaganda, protect citizens, but also to limit Russian state-owned media’s monetization.
Referring to a new Russian legislation with jail sentences of up to 15 years for spreading ”fake” information, BBC and other major news media decided to temporarily suspend the work of its journalists in Russia. BBC’s Russian language news website has had record audience numbers since Russia invaded Ukraine. “Visitors to the English language bbc.com site from Russia are up by over 250% last week”.
Microsoft joined a huge number of companies cutting business in Russia in solidarity with Ukraine. The company is suspending all new sales of Microsoft products and services in Russia, president and vice chair Brad Smith announced. He said the company continues to work proactively to help cybersecurity officials in Ukraine defend against Russian attacks, including most recently a cyberattack against a major Ukrainian broadcaster.
The fact-checker community has joined forces to fight disinformation about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The international fact-checking community’s new #Ukraineacts database of fact checks already includes more than 400 entries from over 45 countries, Poynter Institute reported.
Google and French publisher Alliance de la Presse d’Information Générale, with close to 300 newspapers, signed an agreement where the search engine agrees to pay for using publishers’ content. The agreement on the remuneration of neighbouring rights (copyright under French law) is based on the EU’s new copyright directive that has been implemented in French legislation.
An international operation targeting child abuse online has resulted in the arrest of 46 suspects in New Zealand and the identification of more than 100 suspects across the European Union. A total of 90 000 online accounts have been identified internationally. The investigation was initiated already 2019.
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