News - Russian authorities to set control on social media accounts with over 1,000 followers

Russians with a daily audience of more than 1,000 people on social networks will be obliged to submit information about themselves to Roskomnadzor. The corresponding proposal is currently being worked out in the agency. At the same time, each user of social networks still has the opportunity to limit the viewing of his page by outsiders and avoid the transfer of information about themselves, the ministry added.The initiative also suggests that Russian companies will be prohibited from distributing their advertising on public pages whose users have not provided information about themselves. Roskomnadzor explained the new requirement by the fact that according to the current law "On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection" information distributed without the use of mass media must include reliable information about its owner or distributor in the form and volume sufficient for its identification. This also applies to personal pages in social networks.