⚡️ YouTube reportedly blocks Russian state-run media channels around the world

⚡️ Biden: US moved over 12,000 troops to borders with Russia to defend NATO

⚡️ Critical part of freedom of expression in context of speech: Meta on its policies amid situation in Ukraine

⚡️ Facebook-owner Meta platforms exec Clegg says changes to policy in Ukraine aim to protect free speech as expression of self-defense in reaction to "invasion"

Meta exec Clegg says it has no quarrel with the Russian people, no change in policies on hate speech as far as Russian people are concerned

⚡️ Facebook, Instagram won't tolerate Russophobia, Meta says

❗️ UN slams Meta decision to allow posting calls for violence against Russians: We're against hate speech

‼️US slaps sanctions on wife, adult kids of Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov - State Department

🚨A New Jersey dad has been charged with murder in the death of his 6-year-old son after he allegedly forced the boy to run on a treadmill because he was “too fat,” according to a report.

Christopher Gregor, 29, of Monroe, in Middlesex County, had been charged with child endangerment in April 2021 but was arrested Wednesday for murder, the Asbury Park Press reported.

The boy’s mother, Breanna Micciolo, shared custody of Corey with Gregor, the Sun reported.

She reported her son’s injuries to the New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency and a caseworker urged Micciolo to take him to a doctor — where Corey revealed Gregor made him run because he was “too fat,” according to the outlet. He died the next day.

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‼️Estonian Defense Forces say Danish soldiers have arrived in country to join NATO troops

🎙Former US President Donald Trump raged against YouTube on Friday hours after the video platform removed an interview he performed on the “Full Send Podcast” earlier in the week.

“Whatever happened to free speech in our Country? Incredibly, but not surprisingly, the Big Tech lunatics have taken down my interview with the very popular NELK Boys so that nobody can watch it or in any way listen to it,” the 45th US president said in a statement released by his personal Save America PAC.

“In the 24 hours that it was up it set every record for them, by many times,” Trump claimed, without evidence, adding, “Interestingly on the show I told them this would happen because Big Tech and the Fake News Media fear the truth"

Trump continued by baselessly claiming that what he characterized as media censorship in the US was headed in a direction similar to what is currently happening in Russia, in which “people are not allowed to know that they’re fighting a war with Ukraine.”

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❗Statements from Kiev that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is in danger after it was taken under control by Russian troops are not true, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

🗣️"They do not correspond to reality and are disinformation," Zakharova said when asked to comment on such statements.

‼️US Treasury adds over 50 new individuals to Russia sanctions list

😷 Exactly two years after saying that the coronavirus outbreak had become a pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) says it isn’t over yet. One American public health expert noted, “This virus has fooled us every time.”

WHO, often criticized for being too slow to declare in 2020 that a pandemic was underway, now says — two years to the day after making that declaration — that many countries are being too quick to declare it over and let down their guard.

Two years later, American states and many countries are rushing to drop public health precautions, reduce testing and lift restrictions, citing the swift decline of the Omicron surge — and WHO is saying: “Not so fast.”

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🥴 A night of fun in a Pennsylvania Target store led to YouTubers “Saucy and Honey” facing criminal charges that could result in up to seven years in prison.

West Whiteland Township police say, Johnson Larose, 25, and Charlotte Fischer, 24, were arrested after hiding inside a Chester County Target store and filming the encounter for their social media channel on Feb. 21.

Officers were called to the location after an alarm was tripped. They searched the building, but were not able to locate the trespassers.

“The next day police say Target employees found surveillance video showing a man and a woman wandering around the store for hours with their phones out. The intruders didn’t take anything during their time inside the store,” FOX 29 Philadelphia reported.

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‼️US has not detected any signs of radiological release in Ukraine - Energy Secretary

‼️ Texas judge temporarily blocks state effort to investigate parents of transgender children

🙏 Emilio Delgado passed away in his Manhattan residence on Thursday due to multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer, which he had been battling since December 2020, his wife, Carole Delgado, told The New York Times.

“We are saddened by the news of Emilio’s passing. Emilio was an immense talent who brought so much joy and smiles to his fans," Robert Attermann, CEO of A3 Artists Agency, said in a statement to Changing America.

Delgado was a trailblazing Mexican-American actor who helped pave the way to reform Latino representation in television by playing 'Luis' in the early years of the iconic children’s program ‘Sesame Street’. “He really lived biculturally,” his wife told the publication. “Because he was an American citizen, he would walk to Calexico every day for school. It wasn’t the border politics of today.”

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‼️Instagram head condemns Russian decision to block social network

🗣️"On Monday, Instagram will be blocked in Russia. This decision will cut 80 million in Russia off from one another, and from the rest of the world as ~80% of people in Russia follow an Instagram account outside their country. This is wrong," Mosseri wrote on his Twitter page.

One of biggest German banks, Deutsche Bank, has announced the closure of its business in Russia amid the latter's military operation in Ukraine.

🗣️"Like some of our international competitors, we are currently closing our remaining business [in Russia] in line with the legal and regulatory requirements," the bank said in a statement on late Friday.

Deutsche Bank added that it would not join new projects in Russia.