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Facebook and Instagram started blocking links to “Vkontakte”

Social network Facebook and the service Instagram started blocking links to “Vkontakte”. From September 20 users can’t reference the page of Russian social networks in comments and private messages.

When you try to post a link https://vk.com in a personal message or a new entry in Facebook and in the comments under the photo in Instagram message as follows: “the Materials that you’re trying to share includes a link that is registered by our security system as unsafe”. After the publication of the reference to “Vkontakte” desktop version of Facebook proposes to conduct online computer scan for malware, which is necessary to download the program F-Secure Online Scanner.

“For security purposes, your account and prevent the spread of malware among your friends, we will help you to resolve this issue”,— stated in the message Facebook, after which the account will be blocked until validated. Instagram is simply not loads such links. The references of “Vkontakte” on the users page, photos and videos are sent without any problems.

Previously “Vkontakte” has ceased to maintain an active hyperlink on Instagram. Many people linked it with the release of their own lenses, the Russian social network called Snapster. Founder of “Vkontakte” Pavel Durov has criticized the leadership of the social network such a decision, calling it a “cowardly and sabotage”.

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