Η Twitter Inc. announced on Friday that it had banned ads from Kaspersky Lab, saying the company's business model violates advertising regulations and 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 ban from Twitter follows the line of Washington has disclosed that Kaspersky Lab has close ties to Russia's intelligence services and that its software could be used for espionage, prompting the Trump administration to ban productthe company's from US government networks.
Kaspersky Lab has repeatedly denied these allegations by indicating that it will open the application code so that experts can inspect it and ask a US federal court to lift the ban.
Eugene Kaspersky says on his blog:
We have not violated any written or unwritten terms and our business model is the same business model that usesacross the cyber industry: We provide our users with products and services and they 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.
