But new research from our team at Avaaz shows that after restrictions in Europe were enforced, interactions on select RT and Sputnik Facebook pages actually increased, especially those reaching Arabic and Spanish-speaking users. Avaaz measured the interactions on RT and Sputnik’s Facebook pages globally in the 11-day period before restrictions were enforced for select European users (February 17, 2022 to February 27, 2022) and the 11-day period after those restrictions were enforced (February 28, 2022 and March 10, 2022)..RT’s pages saw a 24% decrease overall (8.7 million interactions to 6.6 million).