Twitter Inc. announced on Friday that it banned ads from Kaspersky Lab, stating that the company's business model violates advertising regulations and invokes US claims that Kaspersky is linked to Russian intelligence services.
Twitter confirmed the ban in an email post officey towards it Reuters when Kaspersky Lab founder Eugene Kaspersky revealed what happened in a post at his blog.
Twitter's ban follows Washington's announcement that Kaspersky Lab has close ties to Russia's intelligence services and that the software could be used for espionage, prompting the Trump administration to ban the company's products 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 to users our products and services and pay us.
However, and Facebook Inc said it had removed Kaspersky Lab last October from its list of antiviruses it has as preventive measures for users of the social network.
