Deadline - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Deadline, Meduza podcast

Incident date: March 3, 2023

Attack type:

  • request to remove or block the article and/or refutation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Meduza

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

At the demand of Roskomnadzor, the streaming service Yandex Music removed Meduza’s podcast Deadline, which describes the work of Russian media in war conditions. According to the letter received by the editorial office on March 3, the reason for the blocking was that the podcast allegedly contained «inaccurate reports on acts of terrorism or other inaccurate information of public importance», as well as «inaccurate information of public importance» about the war in Ukraine.

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