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From the heart of where innovation, money and power collide,

in Silicon Valley and beyond, this is Bloomberg Technology with Emily Chang. I'm Emily Check in San Francisco and this is Bloomberg Technology coming up in

the next hour White House officials in early discussions about President

Biden taking a trip to Europe as Russia's

assault on Ukraine only escalates.

The U.S. now calling on China to put pressure on Putin to end the war.

This is Instagram goes dark across Russia. The Russian

government has now cut off access to Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. We'll

examine how the digital iron curtain is impacting everyday Russians.

And China dealing with a crisis of its own,

Hong Kong facing the worst COVID outbreak since the pandemic began.

China, the worst since Wuhan in 2020,

why the technology behind the vaccine

most widely used in China may be failing. Russia's promise ban on Instagram has now kicked into full effect with a social media platform

inaccessible for the vast majority of the country's population. I want to bring in

Bloomberg's Kurt Wagner now for more on this. Kurt you know what does this

exactly mean for everyday Russians

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