March 11 (UPI) -- Anonymous this week released 364,000 files from Roskomnadzor, the Russian agency that monitors and censors media.
The hack includes documents from as recent as Saturday, Distributed Denial of Secrets, or DDoSecrets, a whistleblower organization that published the files said Thursday.
Some of the documents reveal that Moscow censored all content that referred to Russia's military action as an invasion.
"Roskomnadzor has given instructions about what can be said and ordered media outlets to delete stories that call Russia's invasion of Ukraine an Invasion," DDoSecrets posted online.
Russia President Vladimir Putin on March 4 signed a new law that criminalizes the spread of information that challenges the government's narrative regarding what it describes only as a "special military operation" instead of an invasion or war.
That led to rapid actions by Russian and foreign newsrooms to protect their reporters, including CNN ceasing its live broadcasts from Russia and the BBC suspending the work of its Russia reporter. On the same day, the law went into effect, Russia blocked its citizens from accessing Facebook. But Russians are increasingly using virtual private networks to bypass the government's shutdown.
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