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Russia threatens to block Facebook over drug ads Sep 19th 2013, 22:57 MOSCOW – Russia on Thursday threatened to block Facebook for allegedly publishing ads for illegal designer drugs on its website.   The state media watchdog said it had added Facebook to a blacklist and that the social network would be blocked within three days if the violations were not resolved.   Facebook responded swiftly to the threat, within hours removing the ads which led users to a site selling the designer drug "Spice" and other synthetic narcotics.   A spokesman for the California-based company told the Russian tech site Digit.ru that the ads were the result of a "bug".   The tussle was the latest episode in what appears to be a con... Keep on reading: Russia threatens to block Facebook over drug ads Media files: Facebook.jpg (image/jpeg)

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