Google, Facebook battle to stop spread of Russian anti-Ukraine disinformation with new changes

U.S. tech companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter have started to respond to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by attempting to stop the spread of misinformation and demonetizing ads that run on Russian state media accounts.

Ukrainian digital minister Mykhailo Fedorov posted public messages on Telegram and Twitter to put pressure on tech leaders in an attempt to drum up support.

Some companies have already started to make changes.

Meta, which owns the global social media giant Facebook, sad Monday it removed a network run by people in Russia and Ukraine that “ran a handful of websites masquerading as independent news outlets, publishing claims about the West betraying Ukraine and Ukraine being a failed state.”