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Russia slows Twitter's speed over failure to remove banned content

A 3D-printed Twitter logo displayed in front of the Russian flag is seen in this illustration picture, October 27, 2017. [Reuters]

Russia’s state communications watchdog said on Wednesday it was restricting the use of Twitter by slowing down its speed, accusing the social media platform of repeatedly failing to remove banned content from its site.

Roskomnadzor threatened to block the service completely and said there were more than 3,000 posts containing illegal content on it as of Wednesday.

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