A video sign displays the logo for Roku Inc, a Fox-backed video streaming firm, in Times Square after the company’s IPO at the Nasdaq Market in New York, U.S., September 28, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/Files
March 1, 2022
By Dawn Chmielewski
(Reuters) – Streaming media company Roku is removing the app for Russian state-controlled television network Russia Today from its Roku Channel Store in Europe, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday.
Roku joins other technology companies that have taken steps to restrict access to Russian state media outlets.
Meta Platforms Inc, the parent company of Facebook, announced earlier on Monday that it would restrict access to RT and the news agency Sputnik in the European Union.
Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s Google also banned RT and other state media from running ads on their platforms. Google’s YouTube on Saturday said it had suspended several Russian state-media channels from making money on ads.
(Reporting by Dawn Chmielewski in Los Angeles; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)
