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The office has sent Google a letter demanding to take measures to prevent advertising uncoordinated mass actions via broadcasts. Information was disseminated using push notification YouTube, they say.
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Roskomnadzor has sent to Google’s requirement to take measures to prevent the unauthorized mass advertising events owned by the company on YouTube.

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This is stated in the message on the Agency’s website, RBC.

According to Roskomnadzor, “the number of structures that have YouTube channels, buy YouTube promotional tools such as push notifications, to disseminate information on illegal mass events”, which is partly aimed at disrupting the elections in the country.

According to the Agency, like push notifications are sent also to users that are not subscribed to YouTube channels of data structures.

If Google will not take the proper measures, it will be regarded as “interference in the sovereign Affairs of States, as well as hostile action, and hindering democratic elections” in the country, stated in the message of Roskomnadzor.

YouTube — videohostinga site to store, deliver and display video, Google. It presents films, music videos, news and educational broadcasts and maintained video blogs.

We will remind, on August 10 Prospekt Akademika Sakharova in Moscow there was a concerted campaign in support of opposition candidates who were denied registration to participate in the Moscow city Duma elections due to a detected marriage in the signatures. According to police, it was attended by about 20 thousand people, volunteer project “White counter” announced a 49.9 thousand participants. For various offenses after the rally, according to police, was arrested 136 people (“OVD-info” called the figure 244).

Protest against non-admission of candidates to the elections to the city Duma began in Moscow in mid-July. Events on 14 and 27 July and 3 August procession had not been agreed by the authorities and was accompanied by mass detentions.

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