Twitter RESTORES account of Sputnik-V, Russia’s coronavirus vaccine, restricted over suspicious log-in

    Sputnik-V, the Russian-developed coronavirus vaccine, was again on Twitter after getting locked out of its official account on Thursday. When the official clarification lastly got here, it cited a suspicious log-in try from the US.

</p><div><p>The account, @sputnikvaccine, confirmed up as <em>“briefly restricted”</em> for a short interval on Thursday afternoon, resulting from <em>“some uncommon exercise.”</em>

Customers may click on on a warning to see the posts, the latest of which was greater than 5 hours in the past.

“We’re wanting into the explanations for this,” the Russian Direct Funding Fund (RDIF), which sponsored the vaccine and runs its advertising and marketing efforts, posted on Telegram. 

RDIF famous that they’ve been “open and clear on how the vaccine works” and had supplied AstraZeneca using one of many Sputnik V parts and agreed to take part in joint medical trials. 


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“We ask all our subscribers to put in writing to Twitter asking them to revive our entry,” the Fund stated.

Shortly after their account was restored, Sputnik V posted a discover they obtained from Twitter, saying that there had been an unauthorized try and entry it from an iPhone in Virginia. It’s the US state adjoining to Washington, DC and the house of the CIA and the Pentagon.

Not one of the posts on the Sputnik V account had been tagged for “misinformation” or dispute about Covid-19, one of many many grounds Silicon Valley social media platforms have used to censor posts and delete accounts over the previous yr. 

Whereas the restriction is just not the identical as a ban – or “everlasting suspension” in Twitter parlance – the event is disturbing.


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The New York Submit’s account was equally restricted within the run-up to the 2020 US presidential election, for sharing an article about Hunter Biden’s laptop computer that was denounced as “Russian disinformation” however later confirmed to be genuine.

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