Η Twitter Inc. announced on Friday that it had banned ads from Kaspersky Lab, saying the company's business model violated regulations advertisingand citing US allegations that Kaspersky is linked to Russian intelligence services.
Twitter has confirmed the ban in an e - mail message to Reuters when the founder of Kaspersky Lab Eugene Kaspersky revealed what happened in a post on his blog.
The Twitter ban follows Washington's announcement that Kaspersky Lab has close ties to Russia's intelligence services and that its software could be used for espionage, which has prompted the Trump government to ban its products company from US government networks.
Kaspersky Lab has repeatedly denied these claims saying it will open source its code applications so experts could inspect it and asked a US federal court to lift the ban.
Eugene Kaspersky says on his blog:
We have not broken any written or unwritten terms, and our business model is the same business model used throughout the cyber industry: We provide users our products and services and pay us.
However, Facebook Inc also said it had removed Kaspersky Lab last October from its antivirus lists as a preventive one for social network users.
