Kent Walker, Google's president of global affairs, said
earlier Tuesday in a blog post that "in this extraordinary crisis we are
taking extraordinary measures to stop the spread of misinformation and disrupt
disinformation campaigns online."
Google already had restricted news companies funded by the
Russian government from advertising tools and some features on YouTube.
RT Deputy Editor-in-Chief Anna Belkina said in a statement
on Tuesday that technology companies that have cut her outlet's distribution
have not pointed to "a single grain of evidence that what RT has reported
over these days, and continues to report, is not true."
"This collective 'establishment' seems to be terrified
of a mere presence of any outside voice for the fear of losing their
historically captive audience, if that audience encounters a different
perspective," the statement said.