RKN refused to register one-third of the pages of bloggers-ten thousandths of bloggers

Since November 1, owners of channels and pages in social networks have submitted more than 41,000 applications for registration through the portal "Gosuservices," Roskomnadzor (RKN) told Izvestia. As of December 3, more than 22 thousand of them were included in the list of social networks RKN. At the same time, 13 thousand have already been denied official registration.

The agency voiced three main reasons: users forgot to place a number on their personal page, which was assigned to them after submitting an application, indicated an incorrect link to the page to be included in the register, as well as misspelled the name of the page.

"Izvestia" requested official data on the number of ten-thousand-page pages in the Russian Federation from the RKN, where they recommended to ask administrators or owners of social networks for this information. At the same time, representatives of bloggers from various associations found it difficult to give exact figures on the number of accounts that fall under the RKN requirements. It is only known that the count is in the hundreds of thousands, experts say.

Since November 1, all owners of pages in social networks and channels in messengers with an audience of more than 10 thousand people are obliged to report data about themselves to Roskomnadzor, recalled lawyer Gleb Stepanov. He noted that after identification channels and pages will be included in a special list.

"Bloggers recognized as foreign agents cannot get into the RKN social media register before losing the status of a foreign agent," he reminded.

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