Affiliated media: Govorit Magadan, Online newspaper

Incident date: March 20, 2020

Attack type:

• Attacks via judicial or economic means

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: CPJ

Location: Russia, Magadan Oblast, Magadan

Additional information:

Roskomnadzor ordered online newspaper Govorit Magadan to take down a report about the death of a man from pneumonia in a local hospital. It was said that Govorit Magadan "repeatedly distributed deliberately false socially significant information under the guise of reliable information about the death of a person in the Magadan Regional Hospital from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which can cause panic among citizens during the pandemic."