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> I mean, Facebook even has to consider how to protect the integrity of the Russian election later this year. OK, that was a joke.

The day will come during the election, when Putin accuses Facebook of anti-Putin fake news

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I would actually be surprised: Putin has the redeeming quality of autocrats, he doesn’t complain about trivial things. He certainly instruments threats, made-up or otherwise, and he might occasionally get people excited over confusing displays of nationalism, like that foreign food strike last year, but the whole message around it was grave.

Saying that a freckled teenager in California can challenge his popularity by writing nonsense on the internet… it’s unbecoming.

Fortunately for Putin, the majority of people use VK in Russia, not Facebook. :)

Still might complain about it mind you (has a userbase, but its half as big as VK..)

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