As reported by Ukrinform, The Washington Post is reporting on this.

“Marking thousands of tweets, YouTube videos, and other social media posts as Russian propaganda or anti-Ukrainian hate speech, Ukrainian officials say companies are less responsive to requests for such content to be removed,” the report said.

It is stated that a new study by the European Center for Disinformation confirms that many of these requests were not taken into account, and that the shares made with the Kremlin narratives and the accounts of their authors are active on social networks.

“When these were the first months of full-scale Russian aggression,[US tech companies]were very active, very interested in helping. “Now they avoid calling us,” said Mykola Balaban, vice-president of the Ukrainian Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security.

He said YouTube (Google) has not responded to emails for about two months, although some platforms, including Facebook Meta and LinkedIn (Microsoft), continue to correspond regularly with Balaban’s agency.

Tired of the silence, Ukraine partnered in late April with independent researchers at the Center for Disinformation, a European coalition of various nonprofits, to analyze the effectiveness of platform moderation. The findings confirm at least some of Balaban’s concerns.

As Russian efforts move from state media megaphones to individual influencers and troll armies coordinated via Telegram, Ukrainian officials and nonprofit partners monitor and flag posts that use derogatory or dehumanizing terms for Ukrainians as a way to justify war.

The report found that more than 70% of posts tagged as anti-Ukrainian hate speech on YouTube and Twitter were available as of the end of June, with more than 90% of accounts responsible for such posts remaining active.

Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter have policies against glorifying the Russian occupation or attacking Ukrainians based on their nationality, but they noted that suspending an offensive account often requires more than one violation. Both YouTube and Twitter said they took action against some accounts.

YouTube spokesperson Ivy Choi did not directly comment on the company’s response to Ukraine’s takedown requests, but said the company has been in regular contact with the Ukrainian government and has removed more than 70,000 videos and 9,000 channels since the war began for violating its policies.

Twitter spokeswoman Elizabeth Busby also did not directly respond to Ukrainian officials’ concerns, but said the company continues to work with outside organizations and monitor policy violations. Busby added that Twitter’s policy goes beyond the keep-or-remove algorithm. It includes efforts to increase the reliability of war-related information and to avoid misleading publications she.

The report also found that LinkedIn removed less than half of the posts that Ukrainian officials flagged as examples of Russian propaganda that justified the war.

On a positive note, Facebook removed 98 posts that the Ukrainian government and partners flagged for containing anti-Ukrainian hate speech, but many related accounts remained active.

On February 24, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Troops of the Russian Federation are bombing and destroying important infrastructure facilities, using artillery, rocket launchers and ballistic missiles, they are intensively bombing residential areas of Ukrainian cities and villages.