Kremlin hits at Twitter's move against 2 Russian media outlets

MOSCOW: Twitter's ban on adverts from Russian media was motivated by Washington's "deep prejudices" against Moscow and was setting a worrying precedent for the company to treat its clients unequally, the Kremlin said on Friday. Twitter Inc on Thursday accused Russian media outlets Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik of interfering in the 2016 US election and banned them from buying ads on its network, after criticism in the United States that the social network had not done enough to deter international meddling. "We regret this. We regret that, first and foremost, this company (Twitter) is most probably falling victim to deep prejudices about our mass media," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a conference call with reporters. The Kremlin has strongly denied US accusations of meddling in the polls.