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Rob Nicholls, Associate professor in regulation and governance, UNSW Sydney

The power of tech giants has made them as influential as nations. Here's how they're sanctioning Russia

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The world’s five leading tech companies – Google (now Alphabet), Apple, Facebook (now Meta), Amazon and Microsoft – have taken steps to impose significant and (mainly) voluntary sanctions on Russia, in response to its invasion of Ukraine.

But the decisions didn’t come unprompted. Ukraine has lobbied the major tech companies in the same way it sought assistance from the European Union, NATO and the US government.

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