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TikTok will suspend both live-streaming and new content from Russia in response to the country’s new “fake” news law, TikTok said Sunday on the video app’s official communications account on Twitter. Signed Friday by President Putin, Russia’s new law bans what the country calls “fake” news about its military, including language that describes Russia’s attack of Ukraine as an “invasion,” under threat of a 15-year prison sentence. “In light of Russia’s new ‘fake news’ law, we have no choice but to suspend live-streaming and new content to our video service while we review the safety implications of this law,” TikTok wrote on Twitter, noting that its in-app messaging would continue. “We will continue to evaluate the evolving circumstances in Russia to determine when we might fully resume our services with safety as our top priority.” Read more by tapping the link in our bio.

In Opinion "If China announced that, rather than staying neutral, it was joining the economic boycott of Russia," writes Thomas Friedman, "it might shake Vladimir Putin enough to stop this vicious war." https://t.co/UyTWEG0PWo

Erdogan urges Putin to declare Ukraine ceasefire and make peace https://t.co/pEMBHCvBia https://t.co/uu0p5nNnRB

CNN's @jaketapper says two decades of stern warnings and misplaced optimism in the US paved the way for Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine. #CNNSOTU https://t.co/7fIPssAMk4

Russia’s Internet censorship agency announced on Friday that it plans to block access to Facebook throughout the country, joining a small handful of the world’s most repressive regimes in cutting off its citizens from the world’s largest social network. In an Orwellian twist, the agency, called Roskomnadzor, said it made the move to uphold the free flow of information, blaming Facebook for restrictions it has placed on Russian state media outlets in recent days. Of course, blocking Facebook isn’t really about upholding free speech for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has spent years eroding press and online freedoms and arresting protesters. But contrary to what Western observers might assume, it also isn’t really about restricting Russians’ access to social media — at least, not directly. It’s an act of intimidation aimed at bringing other social networks to heel. Read more by tapping the link in our bio.

Ukraine crisis: How it started https://t.co/jykALDV178

The Biden admin. is releasing 30M barrels of crude oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to combat rising fuel prices sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the White House said. https://t.co/kuIlWoLOig

Police reported more than 3,000 arrests across Russia on Sunday — the highest nationwide total officially reported in any single day of protest in recent memory — as thousands of Russians joined antiwar rallies in at least 49 different cities. https://t.co/87utyYSudy https://t.co/0RGgl3vaV8

A protester in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg was shown being beaten on the ground by police in riot gear as more than 4,300 people were detained in Russia-wide demonstrations against President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine https://t.co/OwMmBFeeRA https://t.co/E5ocEeek7c

Kiev ordered the 'emergency destruction' of plague, anthrax and other pathogens at US-run Ukranian labs, according to Russia’s Defense Ministry https://t.co/9VBFIIq95n

In the south of Ukraine, especially, there have been multiple protests in areas where Russian troops have arrived https://t.co/asZwB4wVsR

26-year-old Anastasiia Yalanskaya was killed while attempting to bring dog food to a shelter in Ukraine, where the animals had gone without for three days. Her car was ambushed by Russian fire. https://t.co/ZwjO0T6shk https://t.co/KV1cVAqK1H

Denmark to boost defence spending and phase out Russian gas https://t.co/8yM2u5kxO9 https://t.co/7DJGNd752Q

A New York Times team witnessed the moment that civilians were fired upon in Irpin, Ukraine, just outside Kyiv. (This video contains scenes of graphic violence.) https://t.co/ukdsv7ZfFH https://t.co/Sv6IyYBGcU

US and European officials have been discussing how the West would support a government in exile helmed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should he have to flee Kyiv, Western officials told CNN https://t.co/nQakUXk2zJ